Corporate Cash, Free Speech, and Elections

I welcomed the recent news of the U.S. Supreme Court decision that threw out the unconstitutional ban on the free speech of corporations, particularly on their ability to spend their own money on their own advertisements during elections. So many politicians love to shake down the productive sector of our economy; what is so bad about allowing the folks who make up these frequently unfairly maligned corporations to spend money to fight back? (Simple answer, really: the only way politicians want corporations to spend money fighting their idiotic, un-American dictates is by paying "protection" money.)

But there are plenty of drones out there who have been programmed to automatically attack anything "corporationy," so while turning a blind eye to all of the money their favored, frequently leftist politicians get through the old extortion schemes, and while completely ignoring that they, too, could form corporations of some sort, make profits and buy their own political ads, they forget that there is an even easier way of getting corporate cash out of elections:

"It is shameful that progressives are willing to throw free speech under the bus in their devotion to big government.

There is a simple way to get corporate money out of politics: get the government out of our lives and economic affairs. If government has no favors to sell, no one will spend money trying to win them."


[ Click here to read the full article, A Blow for Free Speech by John Stossel ]

But, hey, you don't get to control other people's lives by going that route. What fun would that be, right?