Supreme Court Strikes Down Overall Political Donation Cap

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  1. Eastoff

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    It levels the playing field against the idiot voters. :MARIS61:
     
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  3. Eastoff

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    Rep.
     
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    Ha! The look is priceless and fits the occasion. Spot on!
     
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  7. Eastoff

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  8. Eastoff

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    There's irony for everyone to enjoy based off their own bias. WIN-WIN!
     
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    goodbye pretenses of a representative democracy & our hail corporate overlords

    The job of a politician is to get elected and then reelected. No doubt that American politics is and has been filled with corruption, but thats mostly because of the system we've devolved into that requires them to raise obscene amounts of cash to run viable campaigns. They spend their days chasing reelection dollars rather then speaking to constituents/colleagues & understanding/writing legislation. Taking off campaign finance restraints only exacerbates this issue of having to raise cash. This decision more then ever requires politicians to whore themselves out to the monied interests over those of the voters.

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    I'd say it likely just bolsters the idiot voters. More $, more commercials giving idiot voters one sound byte to base an entire vote off of.
     
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    The guys 75% think are corrupt AND abuse their power. Those are the guys who would limit free speech. For not good reasons.

    You are in favor of them making the rules. Rules where there should be none.
     
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    Binders of women.
     
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    In a perfect world, I agree. Unfortunately:

     
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    Hopefully you didn't take my post to imply that just one party would be doing it
     
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  16. Eastoff

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    Well there's going to be one party if all the money is buying elections.
     
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    Picture gerrymandering on a big money scale.

    It doesn't matter if it's one party. It'll be govt. forbidding speech against govt.

    I like stomp and his POV on many things. Not this. If a pol can get all the money he needs from few people, he'll have time to do his actual job.
     
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    1. Term limits for congress.

    2. Corporations are not people and should not be able to donate money.

    3. Every candidate should get the same amount of money and they should be able to win on their own merits, not because they sold their soul to the highest bidder.
     
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    What is important to know is that it's Soros spending big so we can vote against him. Or are informed voters a bad idea?
     
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    You cannot possibly be this naive.

    We need to do away with career politicians. They're serving themselves and their masters, not the people who voted for them.
     
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