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Court rejects corporate campaign spending limits

washunut said:
Not bad logic, and I will presume that you would make the same argument about union donations in both money and people's time. You will also probably agree that the comic, who as an individual, not a corporation gave Obama $1 million. I am not sure who people get around the law we have on individuals but both the President and Romney attend dinners etc where people may pay 40K or 50K.
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I would make the same argument towards unions. I'm not a fan of large sums of money influencing politicians, even if Jesus Christ himself came down and cut a check. The second point, about the comic, I'm not sure what I'm supposed to agree or disagree with. Heck, I don't especially like people donating 50k at fundraising dinners, but I prefer a limit of 50k per person to a single person dropping seven figures into a race.

You are correct about the person with the most money often winning. Obama swamped McCain in 2008, perhaps that had an impact, not sure.
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Sure. The person with the most money doesn't always win. Meg Whitman outspent Jerry Brown in California, and Jerry Brown still won. It seems that the curve of money effectiveness plateaus at the point of pure saturation, but it is still a very real issue.


I also understand that most of the superpac money has been given by individuals, not corporations so it is not clear to me how citizens united impacted those donations. You sound like a lawyer, perhaps you know.
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I'm not a lawyer, I just like reading up on Con Law as a hobby. I'm actually studying Urban Planning. What Citizens United did was it removed any restrictions on what could be donated to a 3rd party political group. There is still a limit on what you can donate to a candidate, but as long as a political action committee has no DIRECT coordination with a candidate, there are no limits to that PAC.
 
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