If Trump indeed tanks your 401(k) to make himself and his friends even richer, the opposition party should make that the centerpiece of their attack heading into next year’s election.
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You Get What You Pay For: If Money Is Speech, Can Democracy Work?
Like many laws that bend public policy toward private advantage, campaign finance laws tilt the political playing field toward outcomes that are undemocratic – a self-reinforcing cycle of economic inequality begetting political inequality begetting economic inequality.
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The Investments of the 158: Look Who's Buying American Democracy
For the country's biggest political donors, the success of their "investments" depends on whether their candidates get elected, lower their taxes further, expand loopholes and let them get even richer.
