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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Hookman, post: 3709657, member: 99642&quot;]It certainly isn&#039;t &quot; Free Speech &quot;, is it?&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I argue that point all the time, especially with people, of BOTH political parties, who insist that not only is the giving of money to politicians and political causes an honest thing to do, but a necessary thing to do.</p><p><br /></p><p>The giving of money is NOT Free Speech, even though the Supreme Court has ruled it so.</p><p><br /></p><p>Money is not free. It always carries a cost. You don&#039;t just find all you want lying on the ground or growing in a tree.&nbsp; Money has to be earned which is the cost.</p><p><br /></p><p>The giving of money is not speech. The word speech means &quot;words from the mouth&quot;. The giving of money from the hand is not words from the mouth.</p><p><br /></p><p>Political donations are not &quot;words from the mouth given without cost&quot;.</p><p><br /></p><p>A political donation is &quot;money from the hand that has to be earned&quot;.</p><p><br /></p><p>We should endeavor to Take the Money Out of Politics.</p><p><br /></p><p>It could be done but I won&#039;t go into the how of it here, as I&#039;ve already stretched the largesse of the moderators far enough with my current oration.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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