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"Money in Politics" is a pretty general concept. But if you break it down into some important components like "campaign funding" you can find solutions.

First of all, who says politicians need to be running expensive advertising campaigns? There are plenty of "pull" channels that don't cost anything. There's not much of a benefit to democracy for politicians to be buying TV airtime and putting up signs everywhere. Presumably people want to hear what a Presidential candidate has to say.

Second, as long as budgets are small it shouldn't be a problem to fund it from any number of sources. Some countries have system for using public money. You could limit presidential campaigns to $1m from deposits totaling no more that $100-$1000.

This isn't even a hard problem.




> This isn't even a hard problem.

The solution isn't hard, but getting there is very hard indeed. The system is entrenched.




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