Allowing contributions in any form is nothing but indirectly promoting Oligarchy.What is this business of distinction between direct and indirect contribution?It sounds like differentiating between bribe in kind and cash.
By allowing this, people are bringing back Oligarchy, rather Corpogarchy. Money will decide the fate of all.
Does US want this?
The Supreme Court has ruled that corporations may spend freely to support or oppose candidates for president and Congress, easing decades-old limits on their participation in federal campaigns.
By a 5-4 vote, the court on Thursday overturned a 20-year-old ruling that said corporations can be prohibited from using money from their general treasuries to pay for their own campaign ads. The decision, which almost certainly will also allow labor unions to participate more freely in campaigns, threatens similar limits imposed by 24 states.
It leaves in place a prohibition on direct contributions to candidates from corporations and unions.
Critics of the stricter limits have argued that they amount to an unconstitutional restraint of free speech, and the court majority apparently agreed.
“The censorship we now confront is vast in its reach,” Justice Anthony Kennedy said in his majority opinion, joined by his four more conservative colleagues.
However, Justice John Paul Stevens, dissenting from the main holding, said, “The court’s ruling threatens to undermine the integrity of elected institutions around the nation.”
http://www.wptv.com/content/breakingnews/story/supreme-court-campaign-spending-corporations-spend/w0pThDV5skG8gpIsYos-1A.cspx
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