1. United States
2. Ind.
3. Letter

Dear Member of Congress, I am writing as a constituent to state plainly: limiting campaign contributions is not enough. Disclosure is not enough. Enforcement tweaks are not enough. The only democratic solution is to remove private money from politics entirely. The current system—dominated by billionaires, Super PACs, and dark-money organizations—does not represent the public. It represents wealth. So long as private money is permitted to influence elections or policy, democratic equality is impossible. A system in which a small number of individuals can outspend millions of voters is not a democracy in any meaningful sense. Claims that contribution limits already exist miss the point. The system has been engineered to route around those limits. “Independent expenditures,” shell organizations, and nominal non-coordination allow private wealth to dominate political outcomes while maintaining a legal fiction of fairness. I am asking Congress to pursue structural reform, not symbolic reform. That means: * Public-only elections with no private funding * Free and equal access to media for all qualified candidates * Criminal penalties for any private political spending outside the public system * A constitutional framework that affirms political equality over financial power Democracy cannot coexist with a marketplace for influence. As long as money determines access, agenda-setting, and outcomes, voters are not sovereign. I urge you to publicly support the full separation of private wealth from public governance. Anything less preserves the problem while pretending to solve it.