Bradley A. Smith Quotes

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• Tax rates should never be raised in some brackets without being raised in all brackets.
• Unlike many in the conservative camp, I accept theories of global warming, and accept that man-made activity has played a part in global warming. My…
• Elections are a competition with only one winner. Giving more money to the opponent every time one speaks on behalf of a favored candidate discourages…
• Few developments in campaigning have been as vilified and misunderstood as independent expenditure PACs, or, as they are colloquially known, super PACs.
• There is no evidence that super PACs have led to a greater percentage of negative ads.
• By law, super PACs are required to disclose their donors. There are groups that have never had to disclose their donors, non-profits such as the…
• Every major federal campaign-finance-reform effort since 1943 has attempted to treat corporations and unions equally. If a limit applied to corporations, it applied to unions;…
• Americans may not always live up to the Bill of Rights, but Americans do not ban books.
• The usual test under the Federal Election Campaign Act for whether something counts as a campaign expenditure is whether the obligation would have existed but…
• The reality is that asking the public to fund political campaigns accomplishes nothing. Candidates continue to seek interest-group support through other channels, both financial and…

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