
Early in the beginning of the primaries Democrats were complaining that Republicans get help from PAC, 527s and "big corporate" donors and get around financing rules, Obama was one of the loudest critics. Although it was laughable because the Democrats have many more PACs and 527 and a huge benefactor in George Soros who funds or started many of the DNC oriented PACs and organizations.
Once McCain was the nominee he reached out and said he would accept the strict public financing rules and invited the potential Democrat nominees to do the same. Barack Hussein Obama accepted and agreed to it. In the meantime Obama started getting mysterious and untraceable funds from overseas and domestic donors, and Obama realized he would fair better if he retracted his agreement and kept taking this untraceable and seemingly unlimited source of campaign money.
John McCain, being a man of honor, did not go back on his word. In the two months from the end of the GOP convention until November 4th he will receive the maximum $84M from the Federal Elections Committee. Obama demonstrating the lack of value even he places on his own words collected $150M in the month of September alone. Much of it via untraceable pre-paid VISA cards.
So McCain got $42 million and Obama got $150 million. In the name of fairness, and in order to abide by his desire to spread the wealth around he should give the McCain $75 million.
Barack Obama said it is fair and better for everyone when we spread the wealth around, Joe Biden said it is patriotic.
Barack Obama said it is fair and better for everyone when we spread the wealth around, Joe Biden said it is patriotic.
Now some may be tempted to say that is not fair. That McCain had the opportunity to raise as much money as he wanted, but he chose not to. Others might say that they both had he same opportunity but Obama had more skill, worked harder, or was just luckier to get the breaks and earn more money.
Some would propose that the two pool their funds and split it evenly, $91 million for each... but that would be unfair to expect the candidate with the least money to have to give up what little he had while Obama acquired almost 4 times his wealth in just one month.
And in order to oversee this transfer of funds they will need to establish a government agency that acts independent of the FEC; establishing a non-governmental organization to assist this transfer would not be satisfactory. So in order to get John McCain the $75 million from Obama, it will be necessary to tax the Obama campaign 187.5 million dollars since only about 40% of all government programs directly assist the recipients, the balance is overhead.
A fair program and efficiently managed by the government.
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