Campaign Finance Reform- An overview and critique of Campaign Finiance as it stands and suggestions to improve the system.

As it stands, campaign finance is moderately regulated, yet these regulations are rife with loopholes that allow anyone with sufficient know how and resources to unfairly influence an election. I use the word influence because, quite simply, money talks. I believe that current regulations are inadequate; in the 2004 election alone, over a billion dollars was squandered by the combined efforts of John Kerry and George Bush despite the existence of FECA and the McCain-Feingold Bill (…

…forced to participate on the same playing field as everyone else. They could still voice their opinions; their freedom of speech would not be compromised; the corrupt influence of this speech would be the only thing taken away. While no campaign finance system can ever be perfect, the current one certainly has need for improvement. Hopefully, the above suggestions are not just a step in the right direction, but a path to a political equality.