How? Change how we financed political campaigns. The first step is to elect all new representatives who have the good of the country as their primary interest, not their own good and personal agendas.

Looking at the primary contributor to corruption in our government has to be money and power or power and money. Either way, it is the same results.

When a candidate collects over $1 Billion to get elected and spends it buying his own cable channel, you have to admit that spending is out of control.

We need to set limits on how much can be spent on election campaigns and how much can be collected. This should also include how much PACs can spend as well.

Here is an idea. For Presidential campaigns set a limit of $100 million. Surely, that should be enough to get your message out. If each campaign is given a limit of $100 million, again including both party spending, PAC spending, basically all spending in the candidate’s name. It would be like a salary cap in sports. You better learn to manage it properly or run out of money early. Visit a state and make it count. There is no need to visit a state 20 times to raise funds.

On Senatorial campaigns: Limit it to $10 million to reach the people of one state.

House of Representative campaigns: Limit $5 million to reach the people of each district.

What would be the outcome of such limits? More and better qualified candidates from which to select. Candidates would learn to spend wisely on their campaigns, which could translate into managing government budgets efficiently.

While we are doing this, we should limit the time campaigns can take. If you are running for President, you should not be able to declare your candidacy until July 4th of the year preceding the election. Make July 4th mean something beside a day off for most people. This would enable each candidate to spend much less than a four year campaign

If we get the money out of politics, we will take back our country from these professional politicians.