Nice work, WSJ. This is why any campaign finance legislation is a joke, like anything with lofty intentions.
Corporations/Unions just recruit volunteers to “give” to the limit to candidates and PACs while themselves writing the checks.
Just make everything public knowledge - no harm, no foul. I don’t care if defense contractors, for instance, grease critters on the Armed Services Committees - I just want to know about it.
I totally disagree with the concept that non-voting entities—like unions, companies, special interest groups and/or PACs—be permitted to donate anything to politicians or political campaigns. Only eligible voters should be allowed to donate money, time and/or services. The political process in American has become seriously skewed by allowing non-voting entities to participate in what is supposed to be a democratic process. After that, I would apply term limits to senators and representatives. It’s beyond me why it is Constitutional to have a presidential term limit and not Constitutional to have Congressional term limits. The distinction must be something only a lawyer (said sneeringly) could rationalize.
Eliminating all those shark-suited lobbiests, dug in like ticks on dog, in all those high rises around DC will save billions of dollars a year.
Not a bad idea. Anyone can contribute as much as they want - but it’s swiftly and thoroughly disclosed, and any “hiding” the real contributor carries stiff penalties.
I fear that, here, Mrs. Clinton will just say “they deceived me” or some other nonsense, and the MSM will let her off.