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Actually, the US government could give all candidates free airtime and would not need to come-out-of-pocket to fund federal campaigns under a properly administrated election system, but let's back up a moment and understand why we want to revise our current campaign financing system.

First, we are losing lot's of great leaders simply because of their obscurity. This is due to their lack of political campaign funding. Did you know that it takes about $100 million to win a presidential election today? That means we only get people who are highly entrenched in the Establishment at the elite levels of business and government to run for officewhich is why there is so much endemic corruption in our system. If we had more choices, we could find honest, hard working folks like the rest of us to run for office and have a chance to winbut they need financial help and we can help them without having to spend a nickel of taxpayers money to do it! Here's how

Most of campaign financing goes to advertising (over 85%). The majority goes to radio and television airtime. Did you know the American people own all broadcast licenses used in the US (that we just rent them, in essence) and we essentially give them away to companies like CBS, NBC, ABC, and thousands of others? Did you know we have the absolute legal right to reserve 25% or more of all airtime for public use, such as for elections or other public needs and that those license users have no choice in the matterand that whatever airtime we use as a public, it comes at no charge to WE THE PEOPLE? We can simply allocate our airtime to each potential candidate who receives enough support signatures to run for office.

We just need to revamp our current broadcast license systems and FCC laws to accommodate our public and political needs. Any broadcaster who refuses the new system could then be omitted from further use of it and the license given to those who more appreciate the need to keep democratic principles in place. Learn more about this and other innovative political solutions at www.patriotunion.org, a national voting union pioneering the nation's first-ever "true" national referendum system.

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