able eye - Right on. In trying to convince you otherwise, people like to become rather high brow and pretend to explain the ruling. It is simple math. If the individual is only allowed to donate $1,000.00 to a campaign, the conversation is over when the individual does so. Articles of incorporation are not a magic rights amplification document that lets individuals exceed what they would otherwise be able to do.
If the individual wants to spend his or her money in accordance with the various laws, I see no issue. If a bunch of individuals want to cost share an effort in accordance with the various laws, I see no issue. The problem, as I see it, is that the special interest groups can now filter that money in such a way as to nullify the regulations on individual political donations.
I am a member of the NRA because I like most of what they do. So I will trash on them so nobody will claim bias. Republicans are thought of as pro Second Amendment rights. Democrats are thought of as anti Second Amendment rights. So there is a presidential election coming, I donate my limit to the Republican candidate. I should be done. Instead I can then donate to the NRA which in turn promotes that Republican candidate in a back door sort of effort. I have effectively exceeded the donation limit, but because I did so threw the lens of the NRA, my right to donate is magnified.
Now lets say my business manufactures firearms. Should I be allowed to magnify my voice, my freedom of speech, louder than the anti Second Amendment rights folk? Because our representatives are supposed to represent us as a collective, I object to the backdoor funding of bills and candidates via backdoor efforts like this.
In the rules for who may and may not be president we see the framer's intention clearly. They insisted a person must be a natural born citizen because they did not want wealthy Europeans like the King and his relatives taking control of the United States. They did not want the elites to run the place, but to have a nation of the people, by the people, and for the people.
Such a beautiful idea liberty is. So very sorry to see it lost and to raise my children to want to distance themselves from what has replaced it. If that sounds horrible, consider the alternative and the volume of nut cases now stockpiling weapons and ammunition to overthrow the current government. If the poor continue to get poorer and the rich continue to get richer, eventually the poor are going to eat the rich. Myself, i am a vegetarian.
Fearing I have gone way to far on the politics, here is a forum which is better suited. All are welcome. Its just a FB politics forum. Nothing to do with peppers so dont think it is bad to list.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/186034831570548/