Only idiots check that box on their tax returns.
What about Sen. GOLDWATER ?
It was a disgrace that neither Kerry nor Edwards resigned from their offices while running for the top ticket in 2004.
Bob Dole had the grace to do so in 2000.
That assumes that "free media" - aka, journalism, aka "the driveby media" are objective and that the money journalism spends publishing newspapers and broadcasting is cleaner than they money you give to the candidates of your choice.But the definition of "prejudice" - "a vagrant opinion with no visible means of support" - applies to that assumption. In truth the only "support" for the assumption that journalism publication is not political spending is the unsupported word of journalists. They say that they are objective. And on the basis alone of that fatuous, arrogant claim, candidates for office and their contributos are stripped of their First Amendment right to spend their own money publishing their own opinions up to the limits of their purses.
And if that says that George Soros can spend a billion dollars on a campaign, I'm sorry - but that is the implication of the Constitution, and journalism is already contributing that much to the Democratic Party in free advertising every two years. In fact, George Soros boasted that he had bought passage of McCain-Feingold.
It's not true that journalism is in the pocket of the Democratic Party. Actually, it's the other way around. May seem like a distinction without a difference, but IMHO that has significant implications which should be seriously considered.
The 'Media Party' is over (Howard Fineman)
It broke? I wonder why? Then give the money back. We don't want you using on nice little getaways, home repairs etc. like you do with our tax dollars. In other words, we are tired of you living the good life with free benefits such as medical etc and flaunting it in our faces and even including the government employees in on this. We are tired of supporting all of you to run around and purposely never get anything done in the true interest of the public so you can freely pursue your own private and selfish agendas instead of what you were actually elected to do. We are tired of you and yours(your family, employees and friends) getting rich off of our backs.
We hope you don't mind; but we have decided to unelect you, your family and your employees and try to get our forced investment in you back. Maybe you can start living like the rest of us. Oh, what was that? It will never happen.
YOU WANNA MAKE A BET??????
HA!
Or has Congress closed this gargantuan loophole in the last five years?