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We have to get corporate money and large personal donations out of our elections
Citizens United
In the Supreme Court’s Citizen’s United decision, the court decided that corporations have the rights and privileges of people and that money was the same as free speech. Since the First Amendment to the Constitution forbids limiting free speech, that meant that corporations and other entities could spend as much as they wanted on political campaigns.
The result is that corporations and other entities have far too much influence over elections and that elections are outrageously expensive.
To fix the situation, we need to:
1.) Establish that corporations are not people.
2.) Reform our election system
3.) Many people want a Constitutional amendment, I think that appropriate legislation would be enough.
(On the free speech issue, it’s not good enough to just contradict the court. Spending money to support a cause really is about the same as free speech.)
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