at the risk of bringing the thread back to it's topic and away from ace talking about himself....this editorial from the guardian gives a fair picture of the overall damage neo-liberalism has visited upon the united states, the irrational tax structure that has been foisted on us, the increasingly authoritarian political structure that neo-liberalism requires as its policies shred the socio-economic structure of the united states, and, within that, the role and problems of the current form of campaign finance:
After the crash: the pauperisation of middle-class America | Richard Wolff | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk