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A federal appeals court in Washington has just struck down part of the McCain-Feingold campaign finance reform act that passed last year.

They struck down the "soft money" ban that was the key provision of the bill, and also (quoting MSNBC here):

The judges also ruled unconstitutional new restrictions on election-time political ads by special interest groups and others. The court let stand another part of the law, which had increased the amount of money that an individual could give to a candidate’s campaign from $1,000 to $2,000 per election. BCRA also doubled the amount that donors could give to state and local party committees to $10,000 a year.

Yes, after this little judicial edit, John McCain's little "get the money out of politics" act now does nothing except raise campaign contribution limits.

Since I find all campaign contribution or spending limits of any kind whatsoever (except for mandatory reporting of campaign contributions) to be a flagrant violation of the First Amendment, I think this is all terribly amusing.

Date: 2003-05-03 09:55 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ytterbius.livejournal.com
A collective is just a group of like-minded individuals.

Not necessarily. Resources come before the boards of directors from all political persuasions, then these resources are distributed per the wishes of these few people at the top. It starts to look like central control.

I happen to think that it's good, since I also think that true democracy would be a disastrous mess.

I'm not looking to knock down representative democracy, but in the end, the power to decide representation should be in the people and not in the legal construct that is the corporation.

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