SCOTUS has reminded politicians that political speech by all parties is protected by the First amendment, not just that of unions and phony 527 front groups.
Move. on is dead.
SCOTUS has leveled the playing field by allowing all to participate.
I'm sure that the democrat party wil continue to be a wholly owned subsidiary of labor unions and trial lawyers.
The difference is that now the amount of their bribery wil be public.
And competitive.
Why should union members enjoy the right to pool their funds so that the union management can spend it for political advertising purposes while stockholders should not?
Corporations have a responsibility to make money, period.
The "shareholder" is a myth.
For example, go to Yahoo Finance and look at who owns Phillip Morris, a company who just happens to help fund the thinktank with which the author is associated:
You might want to re-read the prospectus.
Shareholders in mutual funds own shares in the fund, not the underlying stocks.
I can make the same argument about corporations.
Corporations donate to PAC's and have the same voice in politics that the unions have....and they have substantially more money than the unions.
The union dollars almost universally go to Democrats because they are the party who is going to best pursue their interests - just like the PAC's do for the corporations.
Correct, but the investors can divest of the mutual funds.
You still haven't explained why you believe that unions and corporations should be required to operate under different rules.
What about the union member whose dues are taken from him for poitical uses even if he is 100% against the politics that the union heads choose to support?
Union members are not a monolithic block politically.
That is because I wholly and completely disagree with such an assertion.
Do you really think that the unions currently have an advantage over the corporations?
There aren't different rules.
The system as it is largely favors corporations.
Corporations don't exist in a vacuum.
They are owned and operated by real people who have as much right to express their collective political opinion as a union or a lobbying association does.