U S of A is screwed and it has screwed it’s self. Every politician is responsible to somebody else and therefore answers to their money man.
Running for office and running to stay in office costs money and politicians need a lot of it to run for any position. Do they go door to door and ask for a $1.00 contribution or do they go to the largest union, contractor, special interest group or manufacturer in their state? After all, they get thousands $$$$$ from these groups, with one door knock.
Any union, company or special interest group expects something back for their contribution that helped get the politician elected, usually in the form of government contracts, research grants, favorable regulation or some other financial windfall.
When it comes to the next election or re-election the politician needs more Millions $$$$$ to run again, and he has to find and get more tax payer money to give to his money men (supporters). The current system will economically destroy America, through higher and higher taxes alone and greater need for politicians to spend more and more money. Today’s politician can not get or stay in office without bringing money back home to his/her state and on and on. These are OUR hard earned dollars. They have even raided Social Security to get more money to pay off their contributors, what does that say?
The system needs to be changed, by banning and making political contributions a crime and giving each qualified candidate $500,000. in government supplied campaign money. Limit them to a $500,000. personal contribution and have them line item budget every campaign expense. If they exceed the $1 million cap on campaigning they loose. This makes the field fair and opens the door for any person to aspire to a higher level. Ban lobbyists!
This change alone would balance the budget as there would be no incentive to spend money on businesses, charities, unions or special interest groups. Their only job would be to run the country efficiently.