Tuesday, May 29, 2012

Super PACs and their Use

For the past few decades PACs and Super PACs have been a part of every election since the creation of them. Their main focus is to persuade people who are the fence and to push them to the side they want them to be on. They put out attacking adds against the opposing candidate. They do not usually put out adds that support there own candidate but there are some out there. PACs are known for putting out the controversial adds to target the enemy. Also PACs and super PACs can raise a very large to an infinite amount of money for the campaign. The government shouldn't start to regulate these PACs because one, they haven't before so why start now: two, if people want to donate then why stop them: three, and if they are not doing anything illegal don't bother them. So in my personal opinion, before the PACs were not as big so the government did pay to much attention to them and let them be. But now the PACs are so influential and powerful the government thinks they should slow them down, but why? Everything grows to be huge in America and PACs are one of those things and yes I am positive they will get even bigger. Because the population will continue to grow so the PACs will have to get bigger to reach as much people as possible. So just because they are getting bigger does not mean they need to have more rules. Also because PACs can raise such large amount money the government has strict rules about how much money they can receive, but why? the government should not tell how much money a person can donate, because money is a form of speech, and in America I believe we have free speech. So if the person is willing to donate 25 million then let them! So the government should not interfere with the donations that people wan to make because that can violate our 1st amendment right. And lastly, the PACs are not doing anything illegal for the most part, some bend the rules a bit but nothing really violates the law. Yeah there adds are mean and somewhat offensive but they are very legal. But there are some cases where the PACs violate some of the rules with donations and being affiliated with a candidate but that shouldn't mean the government should get heavily involved. So in the end the Government should not interfere with PACs because they have not interfered before, they need to let the PACs raise their own money, and they are not breaking any laws.

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