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human
CMV: The removal of financial incentives/lobbying for politicians would result in many more positive outcomes than negatives ones

I believe politicians should act/legislate in a way that benefits the citizens of their country/state. They should work for the people not for themselves. I also believe that many politicians do not do this. I think a main reason for this is the financial incentives that they receive from whatever source. Most people I talk to agree that money in politics is bad but, I’ve heard whispers that these financial incentives are actually a good thing. If they have positives, I want to know what they are and how these good outcomes could outweigh the negative outcomes we see today.

EDIT: I have been shown that lobbying is not actually what I thought it was. I guess what I meant was the specific use of large sums of money to influence decision making in politics.
gpt
You're essentially saying we'd be better off if corruption didn't exist, but you can't just legislate away corruption and conflict of interests.

1. So, suppose you were to outlaw giving money to campaigns.  Then only rich people could run an expensive campaign.
2. Suppose you outlaw people spending their own independent money on advocating for a candidate (citizens united).  Then you give disproportionate power to people that already have a microphone.  Celebrities, podcasters, cable TV hosts all have audiences of millions which they can tell people how awesome their favorite candidate is, and that is all you'd get.  The campaigns themselves would be a relatively silent player in all of this because of their lack of money.  Now the only special interest that republicans care about pandering to is Fox News. Is that really an improvement?
3. Under the current system, campaign donations are legal, but reported in publicly available ways with many websites available where you can look up who gave what to which candidate.  Making it illegal wouldn't stop it, it'd just reduce it and make sure all of it happens in secret.