Letter: Get loud for publicly financed elections

Our society cannot agree on much, but the majority of Americans could get behind publicly funded elections. Conservatives as well as liberals are concerned that a few wealthy people and corporations effectively buy elections and put the people who will do their bidding into office.In the 2016 elections, according to CBS News, about $6.8 billion was spent on all the elections. That is a lot of money, but if you divide that by approximately 119 million families in the United States, that works out