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The money would just come from donors, and while giving donors their money back if a candidate fails to do what you want them to seems fair enough, it could easily just become bribery with extra steps and we've legalized bribery too much as it is.

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Political campaigns spend money. They can't just give it all back to donors later.

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Even that spending can often go to help themselves and their friends. For example, Debbie Wasserman Schultz got a "job" on the Clinton campaign as payment for taking the fall for the whole "Screw democratic voters, the DNC will pick their chosen candidate in backroom deals before the primary election" scandal.

Trump too made sure to enrich himself on campaign funds:

"On the day of his inauguration, Trump filed paperwork for his reelection, allowing himself to continue raising money from supporters while he served. As other people filled his campaign coffers, Trump sat back and watched, never donating to the reelection effort. Instead, he did the opposite, taking money out of his campaign by charging for things like rent, food, lodging and legal expenses. In doing so, the president managed to shift $2.7 million from his supporters to his businesses between his first day in office in 2017 and Election Day in 2020, according to an analysis of Federal Election Commission filings." (https://www.forbes.com/sites/danalexander/2020/12/10/trump-m...)

They can also take money to offset the cost of the contract violation. "I'll give 40,000 in dark money to break the 24,000 contract you have that says you would make poisoning baby food illegal."

Somehow I doubt injecting more money into politics is going to be the solution to our problems.