Best Campaign-Finance Reform Is No Limits  This essay originally
appeared in USA Today. The November election is shaping up as a
horror show for campaign reformers.  Republican George W. Bush
has raised and spent more money than any other candidate in
history. Democrat Al Gore, of Buddhist-temple fame, participated
in the Democratic Party’s extravagant rule breaking in 1996.
Running-mate Joseph Lieberman makes the rules look bad by living
up to them.  The current system is broken. The only thing worse
is every proposed reform.  Fundraising will never be pretty. But
then, neither is politics: As Germany’s Otto Von Bismarck
famously said, no one should watch his sausages or his laws
being made.  The main business of Congress today is income
redistribution. Social Security takes from the young and gives
to the old. The Export-Import Bank takes from workers and gives
to corporations. Obscure environmental regulations and tax
changes advantage particular firms and industries.  As long as
Uncle Sam hands out nearly