They should also:
- Eliminate taxpayer funding of primary elections. Those are private party events, as private as a Kiwanis Club vote for officers, and should not be funded by taxpayers. Let them pay for the process to choose their candidates, and then we'll put those names on a ballot with the candidates of minor parties for the real election in November.
- The trips presidents take during campaign season on Air Force One. They go make a non-campaign visit to a school and then they attend the real reason for the trip...a big fundraiser. The school visit is an excuse to bill the taxpayers for the President's travel to the money event. Every president in recent memory has done it. Wink Wink? No! It's wrong and should stop.
Any other suggestions?
I'm very much in favor of the first suggestion but hesitate on the second.
ReplyDeleteThe physical security of the President, whoever he or she may be, is paramount, as well as the President's ability to keep in contact any time, any place. After all, the President is also Commander in Chief of our armed forces.
I think that the President's perks are just what we have to accept.
Jay..I say it is fine for him to travel on AF1...just have the party compensate the taxpayers for their portion of the journey...maybe the vslue of a first class flight for him and any campaign people on board?
ReplyDeleteLooks reasonable--but very little in politics is reasonable.
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