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How to Save the Green New Deal; Get Big Money Out of Politics--Again

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[x] See, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Canadian_federal_election#Timeline

[xi] A new Tillman Act would have to outlaw PACs, the mechanism through which corporations contribute to campaigns. Technically, corporations are still prohibited from contributing directly. Empirically the prohibition is meaningless.

[xii] See the website for the Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance. It has an immense searchable information base, here: https://www.idea.int/data-tools/data/political-finance-database

[xiii] See, http://www.historycommons.org/entity.jsp?entity=federal_corrupt_practices_act_1

[xiv] See, https://prospect.org/article/how-our-campaign-finance-system-compares-other-countries

[xv] The figures in this paragraph are found on the website noted above, for The Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance.

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