Campaign Finance Reform

After viewing "Big Sky, Big Money", it has become more than evident that change is much needed in regard to our campaign finance in this country.  The influences emanating from Super PAC's and 501(c)(4)'s are causing major corruption in our democratic process.  When a set of candidates are receiving vast amounts of contributions from a private group of investors, their main focus is going to be to please those people after they're elected.  This leads the decisions made by corrupt politicians to be at the hands of the investors, not in the effort of pleasing the general people like it should be.  As for the solutions proposed in Azmat Khan's article, it seems most realistic to use a constitutional amendment.  While this idea seems far-fetched because its just simply difficult to get something passed, I think it holds more plausibility in solving the issue at hand opposed to the other options.  A constitutional amendment overturning some decisions made in the Citizens United case would ensure some strides towards a less corrupt government, while the other options just aren't as concrete.  With the approach of "attracting small donors", it would most likely bring in a large amount of contributions from the general public, but there is still going to be groups like 501(c)(4)'s altering the elections as much as they want.  This course of action will not suffice.  For the "regulating the regulators" proposal, it has a lot of potential but its crucial fault is the fact that the chance of the IRS revising these laws is very slim.  Marcus Owens, of the IRS, had even stated in the article that "there's no motivating force for them to act."  Overall, the corruption of our campaign process is evident and I believe that a constitutional amendment will serve as the best way to change this.