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Supreme Court Rolls Back Corporate Campaign Spending Limits

lorenlal writes "The Supreme Court of the United States must have figured that restrictions on corporate support of candidates was a violation of free speech, or something like that." From the AP story linked above: "By a 5-4 vote, the court on Thursday overturned a 20-year-old ruling that said corporations can be prohibited from using money from their general treasuries to pay for campaign ads. The decision, which almost certainly will also allow labor unions to participate more freely in campaigns, threatens similar limits imposed by 24 states."

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  1. Re:citation by Mashiki · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    That's called statism idiot, not fascism or at the same end socialism. If you really want to start digging into it, you could call it a macro-oligarchy.

    I won't touch anything else on that it just goes downhill from there.

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