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Now you are saying that we can't regulate corporate spending because can't regulate a non-corporate groups spending. It's like saying we can't stop kids from buying alcohol because we can't stop adults from buying alcohol. It makes no sense.

I think you have a reasonable point to make, but you are not being clear enough.



Let me be very clear. The First Amendment to the US Constitution says:

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

The court has ruled that this also means that humans can use their property in the furtherance of speech. Such property can be a printing press, a computer connected to the internet, a corporation, a ship, a billboard or other such things.

Some of those pieces of property are legal persons (corporations, ships), others are not. The personhood of the piece of property is irrelevant.


There we go!


Didn't we fight a war about people being property one upon a time.


I... don't believe you did, but I may be wrong.




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