A not-so-modest proposal…

…from James Carville and Paul Begala is one of the few campaign reform plans I've seen that I could actually get enthusiastic about. No more dialing for dollars by federal incumbents? Sounds like the real deal. They aren't just bragging when they write...

At its core, this plan does something no one will argue with: It forever divorces the corrosive—and sometimes corrupting—effect of campaign cash from members of Congress and presidents. When American citizens look at their Congress and White House, they will say what Alexander Hamilton said to a visitor to the newly-constructed U.S. Capitol: “Here, Sir, the people govern.”

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