To: President Donald Trump, The Oregon State House, The Oregon State Senate, The United States House of Representatives, and The United States Senate
Free Speech For the 99% Too
Supreme Court has upped the individual contribution amount for political campaigns under the guise of "free speech" thus silencing 99% of the country. Solution: Individuals can only give their money to campaigns in the state where their primary residence is.
Why is this important?
The Supreme Court has determined that the playing field in America should continue to be tilted to favor the wealthy. By hijacking every state's ability to self-govern with a flood of money from not only wealthy corporations but now wealthy individuals too, every state is ripe for the picking and any individual with an axe to grind and money to burn can make policy, buy elections and the free speech of the rest of us is silenced. The very same people who claim to be against big government and for state's rights need to play by that rule; each individual state has the right to elect people, establish laws and the decisions for that state should be made by the people who live there and who will be directly effected by the outcome. These outside wealthy interests will try to establish policy that will preserve their wealth and power over the rights of the people in that state to self govern.