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[QUOTE]Originally posted by glassman: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by SeekingFreedom: [qb] [QUOTE]Originally posted by The Bigfoot: [qb] OYE! This is a step in the wrong direction. Question is? Are they right? Is there no basis for the government restricting corporate independant expenditures? [/qb][/QUOTE]I think Big is on the right track with his question here. Does the Government have a constitutional right to tell business that they can't express their individual preferences on candidates? If I remember my history, Thomas Paine actually proposed a version of Congress that would have had one of the two bodies composed of Business leaders to make sure that the needs\desires of the money makers of the natiion were represented in policy decisions. Shouldn't those that create the jobs in this country have a voice in regard to who makes the policies that effect them? [/qb][/QUOTE]Paine? maybe, but keep in mind that "business" in The States a the time of the Revolution was farming. [i]Every proprietor, therefore, of cultivated lands, owes to the community a ground-rent (for I know of no better term to express the idea) for the land which he holds; and it is from this ground-rent that the fund proposed in this plan is to issue. Having thus in a few words, opened the merits of the case, I shall now proceed to the plan I have to propose, which is, To create a national fund, out of which there shall be paid to every person, when arrived at the age of twenty-one years, the sum of fifteen pounds sterling, as a compensation in part, for the loss of his or her natural inheritance, by the introduction of the system of landed property: And also, the sum of ten pounds per annum, during life, to every person now living, of the age of fifty years, and to all others as they shall arrive at that age. [/i] http://www.cooperativeindividualism.org/paine_agrarianjustice_02.html he went on to propose that land not be inheritable [i]Various methods may be proposed for this purpose, but that which appears to be the best (not only because it will operate without deranging any present possessors, or without interfering with the collection of taxes or emprunts necessary for the purposes of government and the Revolution, but because it will be the least troublesome and the most effectual, and also because the subtraction will be made at a time that best admits it) is at the moment that property is passing by the death of one person to the possession of another. In this case, the bequeather gives nothing: the receiver pays nothing. The only matter to him is that the monopoly of natural inheritance, to which there never was a right, begins to cease in his person. A generous man would not wish it to continue, and a just man will rejoice to see it abolished. [/i] [/QB][/QUOTE]
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