If we're selling our government to the highest bidder we should all get a little cut of the take, shouldn't we?

Mitt Romney Super PAC - Campaign Finance and the American Bribery Trap - Esquire

The example of this presidential election is not promising. Not only is Romney capable of buying himself a lead every time a race gets tight, but the cold, hard reality is that, without their personal sugar daddies, both Santorum and Gingrich would long ago have been left by the side of the highway, drinking sad beers in a cafe with Rick Perry, Michele Bachmann, Herman Cain, who keeps pinching the waitresses, and Jon Huntsman. This is the way we do politics today. This is the way we keep score. And, once the politics are over, and the various 'hos get back to their real jobs, the rot that money brings into the electoral system starts undermining the government itself. When we talk about "campaign finance reform" in isolation, we overlook the really dangerous corruption of the system that comes when the campaigns finally end. People don't stop being for sale just because they're not running anymore. If they're bought, they stay bought. At that point, this stops being about "campaign finance" and starts being about, for all practical purposes, bribery. It will not be long before we've raised an entire generation of elected officials who don't know any other way to do politics than the way we're doing politics right now. How will reform ever come from them? They won't even be able to recognize the concept. Citizens United has created a great trap for the country from which there may be no real escape.