Episode 128: Are Corporations People?
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The Corrosive and Distorting Effects of Corporate Spending
Trevor: Michigan's regulation aims at a different type of corruption in the political arena. Justice Thurgood Marshall writing in majority in Austin versus Michigan Chamber of Commerce. He says, corporate wealth can unfairly influence elections as deployed in the form of independent expenditures. Banning it ensures that expenditures reflect actual public support for the political ideas espoused by corporations.
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