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Reply #116: Oh no golly gee really? You mean a liberal corporation would be treated like a corporation too?!?!?! [View All]

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Overseas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-24-10 03:52 PM
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116. Oh no golly gee really? You mean a liberal corporation would be treated like a corporation too?!?!?!
Oh golly really? You mean any incorporated organization would be affected by removal of/or imposition of rules on corporations? Oh gosh, you mean just because all the news stories about the decision told us it applied equally to incorporated businesses and unions and advocacy groups that it applies equally to incorporated businesses, unions and advocacy groups? Really?

It is funny that right wingers say things like -- But Golly, Then The Sierra Club would be limited too !!! -- as though we have no ability to read and listen, and on the other hand accuse liberals of being intellectual elites. Which is it? Do we have 6th grade reading skills or are we like right wing reactionaries-- All or Nothing Absolutist Types?

Guess it is just fun for right wingers to run their lines-- HEY LIMITS WOULD AFFECT LIBERAL GROUPS TOO !! As though that is earth shattering news that would throw us into a tailspin, even though it is more like "Duh."

Of course we want limits on campaign spending to apply to all groups, especially if liberal groups following rules would mean that giant corporations with hundreds of times as much money to spend would also be restrained. That is how things had been for decades. Common sense. Restrictions on corporate spending because they had billions more in profits available as conglomerated entities than individual natural persons did. It was a way to protect the free speech of individual natural persons.



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