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Originally Posted by whell
...Yet we're stupid enough to ask politicians to pass laws that would cut off their access to this kind of money? It'll never happen. If you really want to know what's wrong with our election system, its this.
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Two words - Citizens United.
This is on your party and your Dear Leader:
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. Treasury Department decision to safeguard the identities of so-called “dark money” donors to politically active nonprofit groups spawned warnings on Tuesday that the policy could inadvertently aid foreign actors, including Russia.
The Trump administration’s Treasury said on Monday it will no longer require certain tax-exempt groups to disclose the identities of their donors to the Internal Revenue Service.
The move was hailed by Republican lawmakers as a win for free speech. The conservative political group FreedomWorks urged Congress to enact legislation that would codify the policy change to prevent its reversal by a future administration.
Democrats criticized the change as a setback for election transparency at a time of high tension over Russia’s meddling in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-u...-idUSKBN1K727L
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