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If The Cost Of Contesting In An Election Is So Expensive by bilms(m): 4:04pm On Oct 15, 2012
what do you think about this opinion of a friend.

If the cost of contesting in an election is so expensive including party nomination fee, money sharing during campaign and others, why will the selected person not be so expensively corrupt? I believe that if we must curb corruption among politicians we need to eradicate pre-election spending, so that we can focus on what the person seeking our mandate can do and not how much he has brought. As lo...
ng as our politics remains within the realm of win as you pay, the selected leaders who have paid to win will require us to allow them gain back their money in million folds.

Even if we pray to God to help us out of the corrupt leaders, God may not be able to help as He also believes in return on investment. I think that the people should contribute money and give to aspirants to buy a car, rent a house and do other things as the leader of the people. In this way, when he/she get to the office, he will have no option to follow the principle of return on investment to the people. So, whoever invests before election is the person who must harvest after elections.

If aspirants pay to win, when they win, they must get paid back with funds meant for the people. If the people pay the aspirant to win, when he wins, he must pay the people back with the public funds. I am wondering who is creating corruption in politics? The people who ask to be paid before election or the politicians who are asked to pay before the election?

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