What is campaign finance reform, and why does it upset conservatives so much?

[bluefootedpig]

It has to do with campagin money. Most people who support Republicans are business people and wealthy people. They dont want to see their contibutions turned away.

So republicans get money from businesses while democrats get it from private donations / unions (with about 90% coming from unions).

So this reform would limit soft money. What is soft money (aka soft donation)? it is when you donate to the republican / democrat PARTY and they in turn buy ads to promote their canidate.

I find the preivous answers funny as Obama was shown to spend over 2 times the amount that McCain did on ads and even more of a ratio when it came to smear ads.

The point being, is that it should be my right as an american to give as much money as i see fit to whomever i want. This would limit that freedom to only X amount of dollars. It also would then give more power to the worker over the business owner, giving the worker more say over the economy.

If you ever wondered what that voice sounds like, it sounds like communism. I hate to bring that word out, but every communist revolution has ALWAYS been from the workers. In fact you need a very strong lower and middle class to even get it started.

America has not has this issue becuase for the longest time, most people were business owners busting their balls for income, so any tax that hurt their income they would vote it down. But more and more people are not doing their own business but instead living their life on a job. So now people who do jobs think that real work means 40 hours a week, earning money for someone else, and then they wonder, "if i put this many hours at work, why do i get paid so little?"... a smart person would say that you should start your own business then, but with this entitlement generation, they instead want more incentives to continue to just work and not start a business.

That is why things like medicare, social security, and almost any welfare program is started, to help those who are not willing to put forth the effort to actually own a business.

If everyone owned a business, i swear our laws would all fully support free market, but it is the worker than wants restrictions.

Anyway, republicans dislike it becuase for every business owner making a donation, there are about 100 works making a donation too. If you limit the donation to 100 bucks, then that means the workers can donate 10,000 dollars but the company can only donate 100. Does that sound fair? When the workers have more power over the business than the business owner themselves?