Thursday, January 21, 2010

A Very Sad Day for Democracy

The United States Supreme Court today ruled that the government may not ban political spending by corporations in candidate elections.That means that those same corporate insiders who decide how much of a corporations profits to pay to themselves in salaries and bonuses are now free to spend as much of those profits as they wish to influence elections.

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  1. This is exactly what happened in my hypothetical scenario paper that led to total deregulation and the eventual dissolution of the United States.

    https://mywebspace.wisc.edu/dghart/sc%C3%A9nario%20hypothetique.doc

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