The Importance of Free Speech in Political Campaign Finance

Sally Kohn: If money is speech, then billionaires and corporations by definition will have the loudest voice. That sort of overrides the principle of like one person, one vote,. She says Thomas believes it only because his claims are so outrageous that if you were trying to rationalize things, you wouldn't say the things that he says. Kohn: Like many ideologues, he runs ideas all the way to the end. He's also a fantasist. But he would definitely say, of course billionaires should have more say.