Should rich people be barred from Politics?

Question

The amount of millionaire congresspeople would astound you.

Stoner710 · Accepted Answer

i could on board with that. campaign finance law is an issue for that, and/or the amount of money one has to spend in an election, unfortunately it cost millions According to NPR Joe Biden spent 1.69 Billion according to NPR Joe Biden spent 1.69 billon and trump 1.96 billion.

My house representative kim Schrier spent 757,164 follar on her campaign and he's the House representative of Kittas county Washington (this CWU) she makes weight over $1 million a year she a doctor. actually a doctor not like jill biden. so as much as I would like to see people making 200,000 a year or less to be able to run for office currently I don't see how it's possible. especially when you have a bigger community. our committee is about 43,289. and she had to spend 3/4 of $1 million. imagine Seattle New York City LA San Francisco Dallas and other major cities

if you have a solution I will be going to the debate if good idea or a bad idea, Personally I think we should set an IQ limit nobody passed 130 IQ can run but there's many issues with that idea to

jgokgotit · Accepted Answer

No, but I believe they should be in Congress in proportion to the country. For example, if one out of every 10 citizens is a millionaire, then only 1/10 politicians should be millionaires. Also, the real problem with politics is how campaigns are funded. Politicians have to make and honor promises to campaign donors to keep their career alive. We could eliminate this by changing campaigns from being funded by donors to a system where every candidate gets an equal amount of screen time on a predetermined channel that MOST citizens can watch. There would be no funding of campaigns so the candidates could be a little more honest. If an elected official breaks their promises (which would be noted by this impartial channel), then a committee would be formed to expel that candidate and the next most popular candidate would immediately take over until the next election cycle.

modelUN242 · Accepted Answer

Classism is an issue, the wealthy has always been the enemy. The middle class is dying. I think the government should be all normal folks.

AshleyTaylorDanny · Accepted Answer

Why do you think people get into politics. They want legal bribes from lobbyist, free healthcare and to be above the law.

Aethereal · Answer

No. I don't think so. If it's a democracy, doing so would be violating an individual's rights. I do believe that rich people should be barred from using their wealth to gain an advantage though. Let there be a fair competition regardless of position and/or wealth.

Not_Average · Answer

Trump gained his wealth through entrepreneurship as a private citizen, so it's more acceptable to me. The life-long politicians that have upwards of 100 million when their salaries that don't match up... those are the ones I can't stand. It's just so apparent that their fortune has been created through cronyism. *Cough* Nancy Pelosi is worth 200 million *Cough*

Dragonpurple · Answer

Many Democrats are millionaires, its on both sides. Reality is though, most of congress, the senate and even presidents are rich by my standards.

Doesn't matter what party they are in. Even though it would require a constitutional amendment in the US to say rich people can't run, while we are at it maybe we should say no more lawyers can run.

Its by far lawyers in DC and look at the mess they've caused... maybe farmer Joe would do a better job.

Redred56 · Answer

Coming poor and leaving rich, now that should not happen! When you go into office you hear them
Say we’re gonna do this that or the other thing! And end up getting another term. Till Biden has been
In there for 40+ years or Pelosi. In my opinion what needs to happen to ALL levels of government
Is term limits. And short ones.

exitseven · Answer

We have free country and any citizen who qualifies under the Constitution can run for office. There should however be some way to prohibit political contributions and maybe political advertising. Let the government sponsor all candidates and holding debates and other venues for candidates to state their views on the issues.

WindAtMyBack · Answer

Yea. Only unsuccessful people should be in politics. Successful people should not. A track record means nothing.

While we are at it. Let's only send people who never won a race to the Olympics. Anyone who won should be banned.

Bellatris · Answer

Define "rich". Rich in relation to what, or whom? Compared to a starving refugee I'm incredibly rich, but not compared to someone like Bill Gates or Jeff Bezos.

Anonymous · Answer

Maybe

ChefPapiChulo · Answer

No. And I’ll tell you why. You’d be taking out a possible amazing future presidential candidate by doing that.
Just because someone has money, it doesn’t make them corrupt. It’s actually the opposite. It means they’ve wisely saved their money, or invested in the right places. Which is a sign of intellect. I definitely do not support this idea, because it has no merit.

Djaay · Answer

I'll run for president , can't mess it up anymore than it already is. Maybe I shouldn't tho , i'd get mad and make everyone in America fly the friendly skies naked. That wouldn't work tho because then there would be gay terrorist , where else they going to hide the knife.

Hispanic-Cool-Guy · Answer

No. Rich or poor everyone who is a citizen can aspire to political office.

humanearth · Answer

I think they should work in reg. type jobs. Like from factories and stuff.

No rich guys, no lawyers, just ord. everyday people.

The people that work and live in the streets and know what really goes on. Not some puppet in a suit

Zzmaex · Answer

Depends on what they believe in and what they stand for, not the amount of money. Unless they use it to reach higher standards.

Sevenpointfive · Answer

if people want to get serious about 3rd party voting then they need to nominate an online persona. how can you stop that?

josephinelcajon · Answer

What needs to happen is a set amount of adds and tv time set for each and they can't use a dime of their own or donated money

najekim · Answer

IMHO, if a person makes more than the congressional or executive salaries then they should not eligible to run for office. Also, the only way a rich person could hold office is if they were selected by lottery of all eligible voters.

Hawner · Answer

Rich people only think of being richer. They should not be in politics.

pokerbot · Answer

I understand why this bothers people but banning people from politics on the basis of their income wouldn't be terribly democratic, would it?

srhbchn · Answer

Freedom of speech, Freedom of the press, and freedom to position are all included in the Bill of Rights. Although we may not necessarily share the same outlooks or opinions, it would be unconstitutional to barr the rich from politics.

Jersey2 · Answer

No, poor people should. Many are dumb ass people who will vote based in color of the skin or color of the party.

888theGreat · Answer

Again you prove everyday that you are a socialist. That is Socialism 101 . Besides all Democrats would have to resign. They go in worth $500 and leave worth $200,000,000.00.

andreasderjuengere · Answer

The problem isn't being 'rich'. It is rather: being corrupt, or rotten.

ThisAndThat · Answer

I think if the poor, a Godly person ran the country, we'd be where we need to be.

sixtyeightplusone · Answer

its more likely that rich people are smart than that dumb people are smart. After all they figured out how to get a lot of money. We should bar dumb people from politics and we should have term limits

Unit1 · Answer

The wealthy are powerful folks. They'll get to do it. Unlike the poor.

EaterPeter · Answer

Most of them have experience in managing lots and lots of people. That's the only thing I can think of close in experience next to managing country.

MrTaboo · Answer

Well, considering most were not rich when they got the position. They all became rich as a polotition.

Joshua0213 · Answer

Depends, if they became rich before going into politics, no. But if they got rich from politics, yes cause it shows there is corruption going on.

Anonymous · Answer

Good luck barring them from politics when they run everything.

Anonymous · Answer

What would the point be though? Bar them for being rich?

Iron_Man · Answer

No but when will you run for president of the United States?

geola · Answer

No, thwy shouldn't because they already have money, usually people get into politics because they want to make money

Still-alive · Answer

we should instead just get money out of politics.

cloud9vortex1234 · Answer

The problem with that is many of them end up rich when they become politicians.

KrakenAttackin · Answer

Would you rather have unsuccessful people running the country?

Daniel_Dano · Answer

Lol its the rich that control the entire government

NoManToo · Answer

The question should be: How do life long politicians become wealthy?

Anonymous · Answer

I say no, but I do say yes to term limits because that is where so much corruption begins.

Anonymous · Answer

Love how you pick conservatives. Already no you looking for bias liberal responses.

Anonymous · Answer

They can have their political opinions but they should keep it out of their work.

Anonymous · Answer

Most people in politics are rich because they are in politics.

ItsMeItsMe1989 · Answer

But how would they then buy their campaign, right?

TheAfrikan · Answer

Politics is for anyone as long as they got brains.

BarryLiverstone · Answer

No..

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