Full Idea
If we let people's influence on election outcomes depend on their wealth, then we don't have a democracy any more. We have a plutocracy, where the people who have all the wealth have all the political power too.
Gist of Idea
If winning elections depends on wealth, we have plutocracy instead of democracy
Source
Tuckness,A/Wolf,C (This is Political Philosophy [2017], 5 'Intro')
A Reaction
[see Michael Walzer on 'complex equality'] This is startling true in the United States, but still somewhat true elsewhere. Being wealthy enough to control the media is the key in modern democracies.
Book Reference
Tuckness,A / Wolf,C: 'This is Political Philosophy' [Wiley Blackwell 2017], p.106