Campaign Finance Reform

about a specific bill

Preserving American Freedom > Restoring Integrity to Our Elections > Campaign Finance Reform

We support the uninhibited right of individuals to express their political preferences, including unlimited contributions to candidates, campaigns, and causes of their choice.~~We urge immediate repeal of the McCain-Feingold Act.~~

The platform should be about ideas, not about specific legislation.

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Republicans Support Selling Elections

Submitted by SilentLamb (not verified) on Mon, 2010-11-29 16:36.

So you support the ability of the rich to purchase elections?

While that may not be your intention, that is, if not the reality, the perception of that statement.

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Restoring American Sovereignty and Leadership > Domestic > NASA

~~We support appropriate funding for NASA and the Texas Aerospace Commission. We also support private sector research and development of space technology.~~

Reason:

This contradicts other planks that call for elimination of all federal programs not in the Constitution's enumerated powers. NASA is not such a power.

It is difficult to place NASA in a platform document for a fiscally conservative Texas party. The greater Houston area clearly benefits from NASA's presence. However, far too much of NASA's work either has no direct or even near-term application that will possibly benefit humanity, and even the parts that do benefit humanity are so collosally expensive to be a grossly inefficient way to develop useful technology. Therefore, much of NASA is a make-work program for nerds. If NASA must be in the platform, the plank must oppose much of NASA's current allocation.

The Texas Aerospace Commission should have been decommissioned per the Texas Sunset Commission because it "is not an efficient use of the State’s limited resources." It is ironic for a platform plank to directly support wasteful spending.

contradictory, leftist

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