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To: Magnum44

In kind campaign contributions which go unreported.

This has to be stopped, monopolies are usually to the public’s detriment. Here it is destroying democracy.


8 posted on 08/19/2019 12:05:27 PM PDT by Titus-Maximus (The trouble with socialism is that you soon run out of other people's zoo animals to eat.)
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To: Titus-Maximus
In kind campaign contributions

That makes perfect sense to me. But there is also the first amendment, so I guess your saying its the 'how to report it' that's the problem?

I usually think of monopolies in terms of economics, not politics. This is not my area of expertise at all, so I don't know what if any existing law applies, but busting up a company for monopoly of opinion when I believe a company counts as an individual for political speech, may require new law????

I already think there are too many laws on the books so I am struggling with how to handle this. I don't think you can bust up a company just because the group think is against your own values. We are allowed to disagree. How do we define when it becomes political "campaigning?" subject to all the reporting of the FEC. I guess that's the question I am asking.

10 posted on 08/19/2019 12:15:58 PM PDT by Magnum44 (My comprehensive terrorism plan: Hunt them down and kill them.)
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