mkhuffman
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The problem is you cannot limit corporations without also limiting individuals.My comment has Nothing to do with actual speech. It has to do with what allows corporations to make unlimited indirect political donations in the US.
Corporations are a collection of individuals who are working together. And collectively they have shared interests that are just as important as any other organization of people who have shared interests. If you restrict donations from corporations, you have to do exactly the same thing for unions, industry groups and lobbyists in general.
The problem is a whack-a-mole problem. You cannot ban money from politics, because it will find a way to get to the politicians either legally or illegally. It is better for us if it is legal and transparent, rather than illegal and unseen. And if anyone thinks illegal contributions will be fairly prosecuted is dreaming of a world that does not exist.
There is only one solution that will really get money out of politics: reduce the power of the government (politicians and bureaucrats). The less power they have, fewer people will be interested in influencing them. The more power they have to ban things, mandate things, regulate things, the more people are motivated to convince them to do it in a way that benefits them.
So those of you who think that CAFE standards are OK, who think banning ICE vehicles is OK, are contributing to the money problem in politics. Vote against people who want to do those things instead of supporting it if you really want to reduce the influence of money over the decision process.
As has already been posted, banning BEVs in Wyoming is a non-event and was simply meant to start a conversation about how ridiculous banning things is. And yet some people still think it is OK for CA to ban ICEVs and not OK for Wyoming to ban BEVs.
The problem isn't what you are banning, the problem is the politicians have the power to ban things at all. And there lots of people who will pay a politician to try to convince them to ban, or not to ban, the latest thing.
THAT is why we have a money problem in politics. It isn't a court ruling that actually made the process more fair.
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