I think that the SCOTUS has just sold our representative republic down
the river with this one. Its about as bad as Citizen's United.
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Dollars = votes.
We know this, now it's just precedent.
The rich get richer and the rest get fucked.
Limited government my ass.
On Wed, Apr 2, 2014 at 11:19 AM, Larry C. Lyons larrycly...@gmail.comwrote:
I think that the SCOTUS has just sold our representative republic down
the river
In a country founded on free enterprise and free speech...how do you
contend we tell people how much money they can make and/or how they can
spend it???
Isn't this a fundamental paradox of our country's very existence?
On Wed, Apr 2, 2014 at 10:22 AM, LRS Scout lrssc...@gmail.com wrote:
We limit both the market and speech in all kinds of insane ways.
This will only further expand the soft corruption we've been seeing.
Individuals shouldn't have a limit, corporations shouldn't get to donate at
all as far as I'm concerned.
On Wed, Apr 2, 2014 at 11:42 AM, GMoney
THat sounds reasonable to me, and echoes what a very smart economist said
on another list i'm on.
On Wed, Apr 2, 2014 at 10:46 AM, LRS Scout lrssc...@gmail.com wrote:
We limit both the market and speech in all kinds of insane ways.
This will only further expand the soft corruption we've
What's to keep a corporation from giving an individual or several individuals a
shit ton of money to donate.
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On Apr 2, 2014, at 11:48 AM, GMoney gm0n3...@gmail.com wrote:
THat sounds reasonable to me, and echoes what a very smart economist said
on another list
The IRS.
On Wed, Apr 2, 2014 at 11:57 AM, Bruce Sorge sor...@gmail.com wrote:
What's to keep a corporation from giving an individual or several
individuals a shit ton of money to donate.
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On Apr 2, 2014, at 11:48 AM, GMoney gm0n3...@gmail.com wrote:
THat
Nothing.
WHat's to keep the individual from telling the company to fuck off once
he's got it's money, and going somewhere else?
On Wed, Apr 2, 2014 at 10:57 AM, Bruce Sorge sor...@gmail.com wrote:
What's to keep a corporation from giving an individual or several
individuals a shit ton of
http://news.discovery.com/history/archaeology/medieval-poop-still-smelling-bad-found-140401.htm#mkcpgn=emnws1
shit stinks - this is news?
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Good point there. I guess there's nothing we can really to to stop the
corruption. There's always a way around everything.
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On Apr 2, 2014, at 11:59 AM, GMoney gm0n3...@gmail.com wrote:
Nothing.
WHat's to keep the individual from telling the company to fuck off
There's ways around that. Besides, with what's been happening in the IRS
lately, I don't have a lot of faith on them.
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On Apr 2, 2014, at 11:59 AM, LRS Scout lrssc...@gmail.com wrote:
The IRS.
On Wed, Apr 2, 2014 at 11:57 AM, Bruce Sorge sor...@gmail.com
Has there ever been a case where the politician has ever done that?
On Wed, Apr 2, 2014 at 12:08 PM, Bruce Sorge sor...@gmail.com wrote:
Good point there. I guess there's nothing we can really to to stop the
corruption. There's always a way around everything.
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Well given that the IRS has all but given up on investigating tax code
violations of evangelical for profit churches
(http://www.npr.org/2014/04/01/282496855/can-a-television-network-be-a-church-the-irs-says-yes)
then its amazing that you'd have any faith in them.
On Wed, Apr 2, 2014 at 12:09
Not that I know of, but then you can conclude that it's never been done, or
they haven't been caught.
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Let's not forget the recent scandal either Larry.
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On Apr 2, 2014, at 12:21 PM, Larry C. Lyons larrycly...@gmail.com wrote:
Well given that the IRS has all but given up on investigating tax code
violations of evangelical for profit churches
Unions have been taking workers money and giving it to dems since forever.
Suddenly we care?
.
On Wed, Apr 2, 2014 at 12:23 PM, Bruce Sorge sor...@gmail.com wrote:
Not that I know of, but then you can conclude that it's never been done,
or they haven't been caught.
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2014/04/02/anti-abortion-company-hobby-lobby-reportedly-invests-retirement-funds-in-abortion-drugs/
Interesting example of pious hypocrites.
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Elections aren't an enterprise (or at least shouldn't be). And money is not
speech. Also, the country was not founded on the notion of free enterprise,
though I will grant you that it has been a major thread through a lot of
our existence.
If you want to advocate for a candidate or a political
Agreed.
On Wed, Apr 2, 2014 at 1:39 PM, Judah McAuley ju...@wiredotter.com wrote:
Elections aren't an enterprise (or at least shouldn't be). And money is not
speech. Also, the country was not founded on the notion of free enterprise,
though I will grant you that it has been a major thread
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2014/04/02/anti-abortion-company-hobby-lobby-reportedly-invests-retirement-funds-in-abortion-drugs/?hpid=z6
talk about Pious Hypocrisy.
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http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/the-curious-wavefunction/2014/03/31/the-house-of-representatives-committee-on-science-is-turning-into-a-national-embarrassment/
Someone please tell me these republican representatives are not the
complete idiots they appear to be.
The most incredible thing about this is that CNN stopped obsessing about that
fsking missing plane long enough to report on this.
On Apr 2, 2014, at 11:19 AM, Larry C. Lyons wrote:
I think that the SCOTUS has just sold our representative republic down
the river with this one. Its about
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