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Forum Post: Do you like your democracy with or without corporate lobbyists?

Posted 13 years ago on Oct. 9, 2011, 11:35 p.m. EST by ILikeDemocracy (66)
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an amendment to end corporate lobbyists will allow all the other issues to be negotiated through a government representative of the people.

[-] 1 points by Richard3IR (8) 13 years ago

Agreed, three proposed changes:

Eliminate the distortions of the public interest resulting from the excessive influence of lobbyists at all levels of government by abolishing the current system of lobbying and replacing it with a system for obtaining input to government on policy and other decisions through fully open and transparent procurement mechanisms, with the sources and interests of all submissions fully disclosed and subject to registration.
Prevent the use of public relations to distort public and political discourse and eliminate the resulting undue influence, by banning the use of all indirect channels (such as advocacy organizations), ending tax deductibility for money spent on public relations, and all expenditures and efforts to influence public or political opinion shall be open, transparent and subject to registration.
. Eliminate the use of election funding to corrupt the political process, by eliminating all private funding of elections and instead providing for the funding of elections at a restricted level of expenditure using public funds.

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[-] 1 points by Toddtjs (187) 13 years ago

Without

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