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you want to "fix" government? get rid of the need for corporate donors. set a given amount for each candidate who obtains a minimum number of signatures and gets on the ballot. no candidate could use their own money or money from donations to supplement the federal funds.
of course, citizens united pretty well screwed any chance of that happening.
Don't you think several items on the suggested list of reforms would take away incentive for corporations, as much as anybody else, to attempt to 'buy' favors from Congress or the President through donations? If you eliminate government power to reward or punish any particular person, group, or entity without extending the same policy to all, you largely eliminate motive to try to use money as influence.