Here is an exciting new way to select our President and reduce the deficit all in one shot.  Instead of individuals voting and electoral colleges determining the winner (which few people understand) we could determine our President simply by how much money he can raise.  Effectively, this method will show how much people think a candidate is worth.  Or, you could say, how much they're willing to bet that the next President will do what they want him to do.  Now here is the beauty of this plan.  There would be no advertising.  TV networks would be paid to broadcast all stump speeches and debates.  (Just think of all the obnoxious negative advertisements we'd be spared in favor of boring, repetitious speeches and amusing debates.) All money would be collected by two big accounting firms, one nominated, by each party.  On Election Day, they announce the winner and the entire sum that both candidates raised would be turned over to the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office and applied to reducing the deficit.  Hey, this is the American way; Capitalism at it's finest.  You want your President, you buy him! And the proceeds go to the government of your choice. Now before any screaming, bleeding-heart liberals start ranting that this is unfair, this system would allow anybody, even little guys like me, to put up $25 and guys like Sheldon Adelson to shell out $100 million.  But remember, I'm part of the 99% and he's only one percent!  And you wouldn't have to worry about voter registration.   All you would need to vote is a credit card which proves you are a law-abiding capitalist, and you can do it online. This is perfectly constitutional.  Without doubt, if this went to the Supreme Court, Justice Roberts siding with the conservatives this time, would rule that in this context dollars are "votes" and not in any way could be construed as political contributions that would tend to corrupt politicians.  And when you come right down to it, this is pretty much the way we elect our President today anyway.