[sakic]

When did money metamorphosize into speech?

[Cincinatus]

When did money metamorphosize into speech?

Around the time Gutenberg invented printing with movable type, ca. 1450. Money has always facilitated speech in that the more money one has, the bigger megaphone one can buy.

BTW, Welcome to Earth.

[weikel]

The contribution limits are not the worst part you can go to jail for criticizing incumbents under this bill.

[steve50]

About the same time a tax increase became revenue enhancement, and a tax cut became federal spending.

We need to remember words have meanings

[Ole Okie]

When did money metamorphosize into speech?

Don't know if you're serious with this question, but the metamorphasis occurred when the Supreme Court of the United States rendered an opinion that curtailing money in politics is the same as curtailing speech, and therefore infringes on the First Amendment.

[Valin]

The day a person paid to have a political flyer printed and distributed or paid to start a newspaper.

[sam_paine]

When did money metamorphosize into speech?

When the courts said limiting expenditures required to produce speech (press, advertising, etc) is tantamount to limiting the speech itself.

[Psycho_Runner]

Money=free speech. The Supremes said so.

[Freakazoid]

When did money metamorphosize into speech?

When did nude dancing morph into speech?