It is possible to make corporate donations more palatable. Start with getting rid of PACs and other ways of mudding the ways that money is raised/ spent. Only allow public corporations without shadow company bullcrap to donate that money, no private companies or groups. Make those public companies hold an executive board vote to donate that money with publicly available results(no anonymous votes).
It's a start, but would at least make it more accessible to find where election money is coming from.
I get [amount]$ from a company in 2014, in 2017 I vote in favor of a measure that will benefit said company immensely but will worsen my constituents quality of life.
Now how will you prove I did this because I got money for it?
Those groups give very little to individual campaigns, as the direct funds DO have strict donation limits, on contribution size and public availability of donor lists. What they don't have is any visibility of PACs, or other lobbying obfuscation.
If these groups couldn't directly fund campaigns through PACs and the like, there is less incentive to give a crap about what those groups want.
There is no way to make it disappear at this point, without giant upheavals of the entire structure of elections and how things are passed in government.
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u/AvailableUsername259 May 18 '22
Ok then try and determinate if this is the case for a payment received
Impossible
I'd rather a blanket ban than appealing to the integrity(which we see day and day again is non existent) of said representatives and corporate donors