Secrecy Shrouds ‘Super PAC’ Funds in Latest Filings

[Igel]

5. Lots of things are amusing.

Some aren't very funny, but are still amusing.

So one contingent is convinced that money does not equal speech.

Then the problem is that large donors get more speech because they donate more money. How money doesn't equal speech in a very real, practical sense is a mystery to me.

Then we hear of large corporate donations from corporations privately owned by a very small number of people. Then are told that corporations aren't people (which is nicely ambiguous, with some people who say this arguing against corporate personhood and others arguing that corporations invariably have a kind of group-think that is distinct from any actual person's thinking).

The real question is whether groups of people have, in any sense, the rights of individuals. We actually are split on the issue: When it's a for-profit corporation we think it's clear, when it's a non-profit corporation we're less clear, and when it's a group that isn't incorporated we insist that the legal papers of incorporation are all important.