# My simple campaign finance reform plan.

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-simple-campaign-finance-reform-plan/582679>\
**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [May 21, 2011, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-simple-campaign-finance-reform-plan/582679 "2011-05-21T13:45:11Z")\
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**Author:** ![Ibn\_Warraq](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e19b73/32.png) [@Ibn\_Warraq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ibn_Warraq)\
**Post date:** [May 27, 2011, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-simple-campaign-finance-reform-plan/582679/61 "2011-05-27T00:25:34Z")

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> [@Evil\_Captor](#):
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> Whatever the pretext of Citizens United was, the EFFECT it had was to allow unlimited floods of dollars into political campaigns, giving the wealthy a huge advantage in political campaigning, and given that the top 4 percent of Americans controls 40-50% of the wealth in this country, we are talking Oligarchyland Real Soon Now. I don’t care about the damn movie, in fact, I hope it gets picked up by Cinemax and shown on cable nationwide. It’s the money that matters.
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> No. You do not get to frame this as a censorship issue. It’s not. It’s a matter of preserving democracy, an issue you clearly do not care the least about.

Sigh.

Are you under the impression that Citizens United allows for unlimited donations to political candidates?

It doesn’t. In fact, it specifically allows for limitations on contributions to candidates.

What it does say, quite properly is that government can not check a person’s ability to agitate either in favor of or against political candidates.

It struck down the asinine McCain-Feingold law which allowed the government to fine the Sierra Club for passing out leaflets criticizing the environmental records of politicians.

Everyone who cares about free speech should have cheered the decision as did the ACLU.

Obviously there are some paranoid people out there, but there’s no reason to allow our paranoia to make us use the Constitution as toilet paper.

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**Author:** ![Farmer\_Jane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Farmer\_Jane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Farmer_Jane)\
**Post date:** [May 27, 2011, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-simple-campaign-finance-reform-plan/582679/62 "2011-05-27T19:30:07Z")

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> [@Evil\_Captor](#):
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> Well an awful lot of people voted for Bush in 2004 knowing he had led them into an illegal and totally unnecessary war in Iraq. So I’d call that the starting date!

Illegal by which law?

Not that I supported the military folly, but that’s hardly fascism.

edit: Goes to show how stupid the electorate can be. This is why not every Dick & Jane deserves a spot on CNN.

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