What’s the Cost of Letting Billionaires Fund Campaigns?
Via The Huffington Post
If you live in a competitive congressional district (and most of us don’t), you’ve been receiving lots of “free” information lately about the candidates who would like to represent you in the next Congress. Mailers, ads, robocalls – all free. Aren’t you lucky?
By free, I mean that you don’t have to pay for those political ads – somebody else does. Our esteemed Supreme Court has another meaning for these ads – “free” speech, meaning that there are no rules as to how much speech somebody can buy.
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