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Originally Posted by Evil_inKarlate
Why should corporations be allowed to help elect politicians? Perhaps for the same reason that they're allowed to be taxed?
As others have said, the problem isn't corporate money, or even money, it's corruption. Corruption follows power, so the real solution is to remove (or more accurately, severely reduce) the power of the politicians that are elected. The shortest path (that I know of) to that true solution is to elect Libertarians.
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Libertarians would make the problem even worse. They believe in turning the entire country over to "the market" without any restrictions whatsoever.
Ron Paul doesn't believe in any limits on campaign contributions so corporation could freely buy any politician they choose.
There are so many variations of small "l" and large "L" libertarians I'm not sure they know who they are. But the one commonality is they believe that individuals are more important than their country.