Campaign Finance Reform

There's nothing in the street
Looks any different to me
And the slogans are replace, by-the-bye
--The Who

When I first started reading this piece, I thought that perhaps it was going to be another argument for some kind of regulation on campaign contributions. Instead, the author zags in the other direction--that trying to govern the contribution process will never work and is in fact unconstitutional. Squelching campaign contributions is a violation of freedom of speech and association.

The real problem, as he notes, is that our government has the power to sell privileges. As long as government officials can sell political favor, then special interests will spend big bucks to purchase it.

Eliminating government power to redistribute wealth, primarily by turning off the resource spigot, and the market for political favor shrinks away.