Reply #6: We need full public financing, every candidate needs to be on an equal playing field. [View All]

[Bjorn Against]

As it stands now the candidates who appeal to the rich can get much more funding than the candidate who appeals to the common American citizen because the rich have much more money to give. We need to change the system to ensure that our elections are not run by money, if the playing field is equal we can compete with the wealthy. If not then they will beat us in the money game every single time. We simply do not have the resources that the very rich do, public financing would change that.