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Originally Posted by Tom_PM
The idea that money = free speech is so outrageous. Citizens United has to be overturned. To allow a single person, or 85, to give unlimited amounts of money to any politician for any reason is just not right. Life is not fair, but political contributions damn well should be.
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That's the thing....
I'm not raising the issue as a form of class warfare.
If you told me a guy earned 10 trillion dollars and spends it all on hookers and blow, I'm fine with that. He earned it and can do what he wants with it. The problem is that in our civilization, money = influence and many don't spend it on hookers or blow... they spend it on elections, creating tax loopholes, gutting environmental regulations, religious zealotry, creating hereditary wealth and all the rest.
Find a way to keep money from creating influence and I don't care if 1 guy has 99% of it. That isn't the world we live in... if 1 guy did have 99% of the money in our world, we would all be his de facto slaves.
