Campaign Finance Reform

The main question is whether or not we need to reform the way campaigns are financed. I disagree with everything completely. The reasons behind that is because our democracy and the way we vote are strongly based on the candidate. Who they are, what they stand for, and their position in governing the country are the main assets voters look at when they cast a ballot. At the end of the day, some people don't even know what 501(c)(4)s or SuperPACs even are. If our democracy is candidate based, then how the money flows and finds a leak isn't really going to matter. Therefore I feel that we don't need a campaign finance reform. For the people who actually pay attention to where the money goes, I think the way we finance campaigns now is fine and no changes are needed. As for the proposed solutions in the "What's the Future for Campaign Finance Reform?" article, I believe none of them are needed nor will any of them actually work. What I mean by this is that none of those solutions will fit the actual reality of the campaign finance process. For example, in the attracting small donors solution Representative John Sarbanes proposed a legislation where a refundable tax credit would be given to the citizen that donates to the candidate. First, the government has many other kinds of debts to pay off and other money they owe to citizens (social security, etc) and second, where are they even going to get that money from. Are they really going to give the citizens who donate money in return when they can't even listen to the public in elections? Every single person is going to get money in return? I don't think so. Therefore, none of the solutions are practical and I believe that the way campaigns are financed now is doing just fine. In the end, we are electing one person to represent the United States of America as President and the way the money gets traced or how much a candidate raises in an election shouldn't even matter. We need to start voting for the views of the candidate and the way they will govern the country. Money has no impact on that at all.