Should we amend the Constitution to ban corporate political donations?

I do agree. I also think it would be wise to restrict the campaign season to the 6 months preceeding the election. Our legislators are already spending more time
trying to keep their jobs than they are doing their jobs.

Treat Wall Street like religion. Separated from the State. Also, returning the mint to "the peoples" control.

Of course. Also a total tax re-write. Let's not forget putting muscle into Dodd/Frank. The creatures who dreamed up the financial gaming that created the mortgage failures - CDSs,and resultant CDOs. This is still going on - worse that a festering sore.
And let's not forget big PHARMA deciding to manufacture drugs only on how much money the make, not what is beneficial for the sick and elderly.
There is so much Capitalism and so little Humanity. Fair and Balanced is a joke. A teller at my bank, BoA, whispered to me that my debit card account would not be affected by the up coming charge - why the whisper? Why is anyone's card going to be affected? Everything I have listed here is sickening. What have we become?

Yes. Corporations are inanimate objects, lacking human feelings a pathetic fallacy. Look at BoA.

yes

Yes. Where's the petition??

I definitely agree. I also thing campaigning should be restricted to the 6 months prior to the election. Our legislators are wasting far too much time as well as money trying to keep their job instead of doing it.

I ABSOLUTELY AGREE. Congress would be more responsible to the needs of America if they were not paying off favors to lobbys.

Yes get corporate money out of politics.. stop the corporations from Buying their way to greed!

Most definitely as it is a large issue that has completely corrupted the political process and has, in essence, deprived the people of their right to a fair and balanced democractic process.

Absolutely -- it doesn't begin with "We the CORPORATE people..." If the poor don't deserve "welfare" and "entitlements," the rich deserve them even less

100%. We need to take corporate money out of our politics. Plain and simple. We are owned by the corporate beast. You don't thinks so? Just ask yourself this...where are the lobbyists for US? Time to change the system and time to get our country back.

I wholeheartedly agree with the idea, but I'm not sure about the wording though. 100$ is pretty specific, will it be updated for inflation or what?
Also: "All elections must be publicly financed." is pretty vague.
And finally what about ones own money? There should be some restrictions on that too, otherwise rich would have big advantage over average Joe.

Dylan Ratigan has already had a constitutional amendment written, obtained the necessary 100,000 signatures and presented it to Congress. I imagine it it something the OWS people (as well as the rest of this country) and our reps could get behind this. Imagine our reps being able to represent the people and not the special interests? Imagine their not spending 25% of their time trying to raise money and actually fully doing the job they were sent to do?

I am so proud of the people in Liberty Square. I believe that with social media, we as a people will understand the true corruption of Wall Street. MSM has kept their criminal practices silent while knowing that these banks police themselves and the SEC and DOJ look the other way. Only thru the perseverance of the people demanding change, will we ever see it. Taking the bribary out of the elections is a great place to start! Thanks Cenk and the entire Wolf-Pac!

Only if they add lobbying, it should be the people that affect our government -NOT deep wallets!

Only if they add lobbying, it should be the people that affect our government -NOT deep wallets!

In one word "ABSOLUTELY"!

Yes and many of us have been vocalizing this for years. But again, the USSC court ruled on Citizens United. How do you intend to reverse that decision? Oh, and just to throw it out here, would this ban also apply to unions and other organizations on all sides as well?

I disagree with the publicly financed part of elections only because it would favor the incumbent party, and create an entire shitstorm of political parties attempting to game the system.

To me, just keep corporate money out of the political process and limit a personal donation amount to, say, $1000. If a political candidate can't spread her or his message on that kind of a budget, then they're just not doing something right.

Furthermore, I think that the media should be regulated much heavier. It's obvious to me that the media has the ability to pick and choose, and give favorable coverage to, the candidates they like. Thus, if any Constitutional amendment is to come out of this, it should be worded to include congressional ability to regulate media coverage of political candidates.

It's now "We The Corporations," and it continues to get much worse. Elections for state Supreme Court justices can be bought by corporations and worst of all, IMHO, is tort reform. We have the right to file a lawsuit and the system has worked for centuries by allowing judges and juries to do their jobs. Tort reform is just another infringement on our rights and individual freedoms designed for the benefit of corporations only. A limit on damage awards, regardless of the different reasons for damages is corporate socialism.

Suits filed by American citizens against corporations who have polluted which resulted in death and cancer are at a huge disadvantage in the court system because they are up against big finance which buys time and it forces individuals to settle because they cannot compete and the amount of their awards belittle the value of human life. This distinct disadvantage, along with tort reform is heinous.

Also, fuck the SCOTUS justices appointed by Republicans who are sleeping with big business. it's "We The People" damnit!!

Without a doubt.

Yes corporations are NOT people

ABSOLUTELY!

But I think we should go all of the way.

There should be NO donations and NO advertising.

Each candidate gets the same amount of money from the government/tax payers.

There are no TV advertisements.

Candidates can only convey their platform at debates, town hall meetings, rallies, speeches, interviews, etc.

And of course each candidate must get equal interview time.