Kingy said:

Witty Rejoinder said:

party_pants said:

I am happy enough for individual voters to make personal donations, based upon their firmly held convictions. Environmentalist, for example, should allowed to donate to the Green Party to get some policy implemented that they both care about.

my rule would be that only individuals enrolled to vote in that jurisdiction should be allowed to make donations. No companies or other incorporated bodies.

This of course rules out trade unions and employer associations, so it has Buckley’s chance of getting implemented.

If unions and business groups, or any organisation were banned from giving money directly to political parties which they then use to find advertising etc, the banned entities would just spend their own money on political ads advocating for candidates and/or parties so it wouldn’t really achieve much.

That is the push/pull argument.

The ones with the money(1%) bribe donate to their political party, so that their political party has enough money to plaster ads all over social media in the hope that they will get a government that reduces taxes on the rich. Hello Gina & Donald.

The ones without money(99%) just hope that their fairly elected candidate will help their constituents with medicare, sick pay, family leave, union rights, fair work, holiday pay, equality, and all that stupid stuff that poor people claim that they want, but severely reduces a billionaires new yacht payments.

worked well for the black and yellow dude