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sidster
03-24-2008, 11:51 PM
Can someone explain this to me in layman's terms please?

I see this cited as a criticism of McCain and honestly, I must
be missing something here... please edumecate me on this
topic.

sidster
03-25-2008, 05:30 PM
anyone?

JS4Pat
03-25-2008, 05:41 PM
Well in really simple terms...

McCain believes it is OK to use the power of the federal government to tell you what you can and can't do with regards to campaigning for a candidate for federal office.

FREEDOM vs TYRANNY

McCain is one the side of yup you guessed it...

Unspun
03-25-2008, 05:52 PM
It's campaign finance reforms (regulations & restrictions) and violates the first amendment.

nate895
03-25-2008, 09:41 PM
It's campaign finance reforms (regulations & restrictions) and violates the first amendment.

I love how courts rule that porn is protected by the first amendment, but you must file confusing reports and face jail if you speak out in favor of a candidate. Which would you think would be more important to the founders?

sidster
03-25-2008, 11:23 PM
I love how courts rule that porn is protected by the first amendment, but you must file confusing reports and face jail if you speak out in favor of a candidate. Which would you think would be more important to the founders?

Well, you are being silly now. There were no internets back in the
days of our founders! :rolleyes:




... but on a serious note, if McCain-Feingold is to prevent some billionaire
(or corporation -- think Exxon Mobile, GE, ...) from taking full-page ads
in Los Angeles Times, New York Times, or <insert major city name> Times
on a daily basis, promoting his/her/their candidate, isn't that a "Good Thing (tm)"?

As it is we are crying foul on MSM censoring Ron Paul and promoting their
drones. If less restrictions were in place would they get away with even
more?

Banana
03-25-2008, 11:32 PM
sidster,

The problem is we now have to find someone to enforce the law. Who would you entrust the job to?

When you consider that monopolies or olgipolies that exist right now, they are in fact coercive not natural; they are that way because of interference by government. Because of EPA, we can't sue a neighboring company for spilling over their pollution in our lot because they've already paid the pollution rights to EPA, who doesn't even own our lot and may not have had our permission in first place. This is in despite of the intention that EPA would help reduce pollution.

Therefore, McCain-Feingold is going to have same ramifications; big companies will simply just change their tune and get in bed with whoever enforces the laws so it actually work against us. Not mention that bribing a bunch of politicians to look the other way is far more cheaper than running multiple nationwide ads to persuade people of an issue.

LEK
03-26-2008, 10:54 AM
It's campaign finance reforms (regulations & restrictions) and violates the first amendment.

And it applies to everyone except McCain.

Aratus
03-26-2008, 10:56 AM
In terms of his own bill, he overspends by 4.5 million dollars!