We as taxpayers own the airways. The FCC leases out use of those airways to private corporations to broadcast. During elections, those private corporations charge candidates a fortune to access our publicly owned airwaves to get their messaging to constituents. The systems creates a tremendous entry barrier to running for office -- it costs a fortune and results in the best fundraiser, not the best governing official, getting elected. The President should have the FCC enact the following: "Any entity wishing to broadcast over airwaves in the United States must guarantee free and equal access to said airwaves during the last 60 days of an election to any candidate who has received the requisite number of signatures via the petitioning process to earn a place on the electoral ballot."
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