• @Omgarm
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    352 months ago

    The corporations is especially crazy. An individual supporting the democratic process makes sense. They are the ones voting. But a business doesn’t vote.

    • Pennomi
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      282 months ago

      An individual supporting with hard limits to prevent a plutocracy makes sense.

      • @[email protected]
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        Maximum monthly donation should be tied to minimum wage for 1 day of work. Realistically, who (unless you’ve got malicious intent or you’re rich as fuck, in which case I’ll assume malicious intent), is going to donate more than 1-20th of their income to a political party. Want to donate more? Choose a charity instead.

        (And a bonus) this law would probably break the gridlock on increasing minimum wage.

    • @[email protected]
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      92 months ago

      The very-dishonestly named “Citizens United” fucked over We the People. Badly. Now, even Democrats and Independents have to also raise obscene amounts of money to match what giant corporations almost always throw at the Republicans who promise to lower their tax rates, limit regulation, repeal environmental and antitrust restrictions, etc.

      If it’s not yet fully a capitalist hellscape, it’s well on its way there…