It’s a pretty stunning move: Officials with the National Association of Home Builders on Feb. 12 decided that the group’s political action committee will no longer make contributions to candidates for U.S. Congress.
The reason? Association officials say that Congress hasn’t done enough in the last six months to stabilize the struggling housing market. You can read a statement from the home builders association here.
I’ve to admit, when I read this I was surprised. Organizations like the National Association of Home Builders have active political action committees, ones that spread tons of money around to politicians.
Then I began thinking: What if all special-interest groups like the National Association of Home Builders stopped making donations to legislators? How would that change our political system?
Maybe I’m naive, but I think I’d like a world without lobbyists and political action committees.
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