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Originally Posted by JiriHrdina
The ultimate democracy is forcing parties to gain support on their own, and with it raise funds.
I'll keep my loonie.
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How is that Democratic? I will reiterate a point I made earlier in this thread. People in higher income brackets will have more money to give their preferred political party. People in lower income brackets will have less money to give to their preferred political party. Each group is bound to have different issue concerns and support a different party. Therefore under a system where parties raise their own money, a working class party with the same amount of voting support as a business party will raise less funds. Which makes in harder for the working class party to compete. You see how that isn't democratic?
Removing this funding is definitely more capitalistic but definitely not more democratic. Let's not pretend this upholds democracy no matter what your view on the issue is.