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Originally Posted by fotze
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I would be all for a maximum of $200 donated politically.
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That's probably the best idea if we wanted something closer to democratic equality.
The type of people who can and do donate upwards of $1,100 to political parties are also the kind of people who are not going to miss the money at all, and I would be willing to bet that parties like the NDP and Greens have far fewer of those types supporting them than the Conservatives and Liberals, so removing the amount of funding for parties does put more power in the hands of people with deep pockets... I don't see how it can be argued otherwise.
Of course, politics has ALWAYS been about dollars and it has always been an elitists game (how many middle class PMs have we had?)... I think most, if not all of our PMs are either of British/Scottish/Irish or French decent (the main colonila ethnic groups), and they all come come from blue blood. It was very telling during the last big election when Harper, Martin, and Layton all had to throw tidbits during their speeches that emphasized their lineages to particular east coast families... It's probably the main reason why the Liberals opted for Dion when they could have asked Ignatieff... but I digress. I guess the only point I have is that I believe this does make poltics more elitist, but it has always been that way anyway.