Reply #9: Wrong, the millionaries amendment helps poor candidates, doesn't restrict self funded candidates [View All]

[ShadowLiberal]

You're wrong when you say that it limits how much of their own money a super rich candidate can spend getting elected. The millionaires amendment merely allows a poor challenger who can't fund their own campaign to receive triple the donations from an individual then usually allowed. It also makes it so that donations to the poor candidate don't count in the overall limit of how much money you as an individual can donate to politicians in a year.

The millionaires amendment kicks in as soon as the rich candidate spends something like $350,000 dollars of their own money on the campaign.

This is a dark day for the common man's dream of going to Washington DC, we should start attacking the republicans on the Supreme Court by saying the court has aligned itself with billionaires and against the dreams of the common man who might want to run for political office.