| Soleron said: Does letting corporations spend millions of dollars on politicians' campaigns create a desirable society for human beings? Not really. |
They can't, though. Not directly, at least. Sure, they can take out their own ads that basically echo a campaign's own attack ads or whatever, but there is a cap on direct donations and collusion is still strictly illegal (though I'm sure it happens, of course).
The problem is that it's exceedingly arbitrary to say that a corporation like the New York Times Company can essentially spend millions of dollars on campaigns by taking an editorial stance on a particular issue or endorsing a particular candidate, but a corporation like Koch Industries can't. Freedom of speech and press belongs to everyone, not only to some properly anointed priesthood of so-called journalists.
