Thursday, January 21, 2010

FOXNews.com - Supreme Court Removes Limits on Corporate, Labor Donations to Campaigns

FOXNews.com - Supreme Court Removes Limits on Corporate, Labor Donations to Campaigns: "In a stunning reversal of the nation's federal campaign finance laws, the Supreme Court ruled 5-4 Thursday that as an exercise of free speech, corporations, labor unions and other groups can directly spend on political campaigns."

Campaign finance laws aren't effective anyway -- they just shift how things are done while appearing to solve the problem.

"'In the context of election to public office, the distinction between corporate and human speakers is significant. Although they make enormous contributions to our society, corporations are not actually members of it,' he added."

Technically, corporations don't do anything either (speak, spend money, etc). It is the people who run those corporations who do those things.

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