Yes, right now you have one blanket spending limit. If it is a fixed election, then you have about $1 million during the pre-election period and just over $600,000 during the election campaign period. It's crazy to have one spending limit for many different types of third parties.
Democracy Watch's position is that businesses should be prohibited from spending. They already have economic influence. The executives who make the decision on the spending are not representing either the shareholders or the workers. One voter should be limited to spending a very small amount. Citizen groups or any type of interest group should be allowed to spend a multiple of the amount that one voter could spend, based on the actual number of voters who support them. Someone can have a numbered company supported by very few voters, or one voter can spend $1.6 million to influence the election—the same amount as a citizen group with 100,000 members. It's not democratic at all. It's not egalitarian. I think it violates the Supreme Court standard, but it just hasn't been tested in court.
