WANG: Campaign finance law 'fixes' an imaginary problem

Washington Times Thursday 31st March, 2011

Supreme Court heard oral arguments Monday in its second campaign finance case in two years. The latest matter, which involves a pair of challenges to Arizona’s public funding program for state candidates, likely will not feature as prominently in popular discussion as last year’s Citizens United decision, which struck down prohibitions on independent political speech by corporations and labor unions.Taken together, however, these two cases seem to appeal to many liberals as a focal point for validating their long-held conviction that American democracy is dominated by a conspiracy of the powerful and the wealthy. Yet as deep as their beliefs are in this oppression theology masquerading as political theory, it is wrong, and it compounds the error to use campaign finance law as a...

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