'Thanks to Citizens United': 50 Megadonors Have Put Over $1.5 Billion Into 2024 Election
'Thanks to Citizens United': 50 Megadonors Have Put Over $1.5 Billion Into 2024 Election
The top 50 contributors "skew Republican" but the list includes donors to both major parties, an analysis from The Washington Post showed.
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Are there other western countries that have a similar rule regarding money in politics? I'm not familiar with rules regarding political donations in other countries
Not really. Most actually have very strict rules about who can donate
Are the rules around who can donate or around how much they can donate? My understanding is that in the US, most people can donate directly to a candidate (within a limit) but you can donate unlimited amounts "indirectly" to the candidate
Most have rules stipulating who can, and how much and where.
In the US, that’s how it works. The caveat is that the people who fund it are supposed to be know. This is why we have PACs that act as a buffer between the actual donors and the public.
Ken griffin (the idiot billionaire in the photograph… of Citadel Securities infamy,) recently dropped millions to defeat a measure that would have seen taxed “enough” that it was profitable to do that.
Do you think it would have worked if the scare-ads said “this message brought to you by a rich fuck you all hate”?