Eliminating soft money is the act if prohibiting or regulating campaign contributions to political parties and/or contributions for party building. Many proponents of this proposition argue that eliminating soft money would level the playing field if an election. Soft money is often used to get around federal limits on hard money....
Opponents of the proposition argue that the first amendment protects the right to soft money tactics and elimination also contradicts the ruling in the Buckley v. Valeo case....
Raising limits on individual contributions is a proposal to increase the dollar amounts individuals may give to a campaign, party, or PAC. Proponents of this proposal argue that this will allow candidates to spend less time fundraising, decrease the influence of PACs, decrease restrictions on the first amendment and eliminate the problem in which limits are not indexed to inflation. Opponents argue that this proposal would allow the rich to buy more influence and drive up the money of campaigns as a whole
No comments:
Post a Comment