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Supreme Court Chief Justice:
"Spending large sums of money in connection with elections, but not in connection with an effort to control the exercise of an officeholder's official duties, does not give rise to quid pro quo corruption"
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Marxsplainer
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i applaud this heroic exercise of the revolutionary science of accelerationism by Comrade Chairman Roberts
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thats the stupidest sentance ive read today
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theres no corruption in the US, it's all perfectly legal
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political car tune
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if you make bribery illegal, only criminals will bribe- oh.
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Mike Nelson here.
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campaign finance laws in canada ban all corporate and union money and restrict personal donations to basically $1,200 a year and the conservatives still win the funds race because they've got a lot of angry dads giving a few hundred each.
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Not Your S.H.I.E.L.D.
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getfiscal posted:

campaign finance laws in canada ban all corporate and union money and restrict personal donations to basically $1,200 a year and the conservatives still win the funds race because they've got a lot of angry dads giving a few hundred each.



yeah, democracy works

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getfiscal posted:

campaign finance laws in canada ban all corporate and union money and restrict personal donations to basically $1,200 a year and the conservatives still win the funds race because they've got a lot of angry dads giving a few hundred each.


that limit's about to be raised by 30% by the Fair Elections Act (lmao) tho (along with a host of cool voter suppression measures and cuts to electoral programs for those who aren't keeping up with canada's rapid ascent to exciting new frontiers of shit)

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now theres effectively no individual limit now since you can just give to a bunch of PACs (see ex. 3) who all give to one candidate or w/e, effectively laundering your money
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can we please go back to switching cars in a parking garage and exchanging paper bags of 100s, french connection style political corruption. this pac bullshit is so so SO dishonorable and really profoundly un-american.
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American politicians are so cheap to buy lol. i forgot who made the comment originally but its sad when a congressman can be bought for like 100k or less.
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in case anyone missed it http://www.theonion.com/articles/us-currency-finally-achieves-universal-suffrage,35702/
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mt.real
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yeah i hate librarians... always talkin about ron paul and everything