The News-Record in Greensboro, North Carolina says " It's time the people started pushing lawmakers to stop the money chase." Among the reforms they propose considering is public financing of campaigns - which, the editorial notes, may in fact cost the taxpayer less than the current system where policy is tied to campaign cash. Campaign costs are at an all time high - as is, the current raft of editorial would indicate, disgust with those campaign costs. Have we hit the breaking point? Is $2.8 billion in election expenditures sufficient evidence for systemic overhaul?