# What if there was a limit to campaign spending?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-there-was-a-limit-to-campaign-spending/643713>\
**Category:** Politics & Elections\
**Created:** [December 11, 2012, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-there-was-a-limit-to-campaign-spending/643713 "2012-12-11T16:48:01Z")\
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**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\
**Post date:** [December 12, 2012, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-there-was-a-limit-to-campaign-spending/643713/21 "2012-12-12T00:59:54Z")

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You’d be better off dumping the fixed-term election system - just dissolve Congress for six weeks, let the political parties nominate their candidates, hold your election and get back to work.  
In others words, be more Canadian, you silly Americans.

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**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\
**Post date:** [December 12, 2012, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-there-was-a-limit-to-campaign-spending/643713/22 "2012-12-12T02:37:50Z")

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I personally would like to see the House changed to some sort of proxy system so that I could register my proxy to the person I feel most suited to represent me. As long as there were real limits on how many proxies one representative could wield (1% sounds like a good max).

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