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sokoloffyesterday at 9:46 PM1 replyview on HN

> no "I'm a billionaire so I can spend as much as I want on myself"

To me, that would seem extremely difficult for Congress to pass a law restricting individual speech in this particular way that would pass First Amendment muster, and I don’t think we should be at “let’s just set aside the Constitution when it clearly says something we don’t like” because I don’t think that ends well in today’s political climate (or any other, but it’s especially bad now).


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vineyardmikeyesterday at 11:40 PM

We already have laws that limit how much you can give to someone else’s campaign. We’ve already crossed that threshold in terms of “free speech”.

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