Tuesday, April 12, 2016

A PAC Or SuperPAC?

       Good morning class, today, as promised, we will discuss PACs and SuperPACs. A PAC is a means by which a group can solicit funds from "members" to pool their money in order to support an individual candidate, in order to influence certain politicians by helping them, financially, to sway voters. SuperPACs are able to provide unlimited funds from anyone or corporation to influence the public and the politician without ever divulging who their contributors are. However they may not work in concert directly with any candidate, wink, wink.. What they can do is watch to see what the candidate will do, wink, wink, and then tune their own efforts to blend with and assist the candidate.
       All of this will be supervised by the FDA, the Federal Election Board, wink, wink. The FDA is made up of two Democrats and two Republicans, wink, wink. The advantage of having this even split is so neither party will have the upper hand in overseeing elections, wink, wink. What it effectively does is create an environment where no decision or punishment can be handed down unless both parties fully agree, wink, wink. Which means that no matter how bad any candidate or party may act, they will in no way be punished.
       Then came the Supreme Court's decision in which money equals speech. And since speech is free, it means that anyone can spend as much money supporting any candidate as they can afford. And since corporations were decided by the Supreme Court, wink, wink, to be people, they can spend as much as they please. And because of PACs and SuperPACs, they don't have to tell anybody how much they spend and on whom they spend it. But they get to deduct the donations from their taxes. Can we have a big WINK,WINK.

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