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In reply to the discussion: Jimmy Carter calls for return to publicly financed elections [View all]Grins
(7,372 posts)After that vote the Republican leadership alone (Hastert, Delay, Boehner and others) went into a close-door meeting and re-wrote parts of the bill that took away from the government the right to negotiate with drug companies for drugs that they bought for Medicare, and probably the VA, too.
Just like that - $22 Billion went into the pockets of Big PhRMA who had funded many GOP campaigns. A few months after Bush signed the bill into law, Republican Congressman Billy Tauzin announced that he was retiring from Congress and would be taking a job as - chief lobbyist for PhRMA, for a paltry salary of $2 million a year.
And that's just one case. There are probably hundreds of them every year.
I'd go further and fund elections for the House and Senate as well as state governorships. If it costs less than $22 billion, it's a steal.
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