If Democrats REALLY wanted to get money out of politics, they’d tax it. I don’t know, let’s say 90%. Unions, candidates, so-called non-profits, anyone spending money to advocate for or against a candidate, or issue or measure, directly, indirectly, via lawyers or lobbyists, etc., etc. shall pay the tax on those expenditures.
If 90% is too steep, how about we peg it to the highest individual or better yet corporate tax rate?
Seriously, Democrats. If money in politics is so awful, and you are serious about it “not being speech,” and therefore not being protected, then shouldn’t you do your patriotic duty and pay taxes on those campaign contributions?
Think of all the vulnerable people you could help with that “revenue”? All the ‘healthcare’ you could provide for women. The roads and bridges you could build. The Green energy projects you cold finance. The debt you could pay back to protect future generations from blah blah blah.
And don’t pretend you can’t. You ignore every construct, legal or ethical, to get your way when it suits. If you wanted it bad enough, if it mattered, you’d make it happen.
And it would work. You’d get the money out of politics.
Even self-funded millionaires would stay home instead of running for office and likely look for better investments than politicians unless of course, those politicians lowered the individual and corporate tax rates to save themselves some campaign dollars.
No, it will never happen. That’s not what Democrats want. They have no interest in “getting money out of politics.” They love political cash the way they love guns. It’s not about the guns or the money it is all about who has control.
When Democrats say they want money out of politics what they mean is that they want to control speech. Speech to which they object. Speech that threatens their ascent or hold on power. That is what McCain-Feingold was. Incumbent protection for the ruling class. When Citizens United challenged it and won, the left went nuts because it relinquished their ability to control speech to which they objected.
And this is no different than the PC culture redefining the language. You change the language to control the debate, or in the case of the social justice warriors doing the left’s bidding, to end debate entirely.
The left loves money. They love money in politics. But only when they alone control the speech it creates.
