June 27, 2010
By Jeff
The Philadelphia Inquirer published this article on the house passing a campaign spending bill. Here is a quote from the article:
The original exemption was limited to groups with more than one million members, active in all 50 states, that derive no more than 15 percent of their funds from corporations, and have existed for more than 10 years. After liberal Democrats threatened to sink the bill, Democratic leaders expanded the exemption to groups with more than 500,000 members.
This is yet another bill that discriminates against most at the expense of others. I fail to understand how any bill that favors one group over another based on any criteria (size, type, race, income, profession, etc) is constitutional. Article I, Section 9 states the following:
No bill of Attainder or ex post facto Law shall be passed
Wikipedia has the following explanation of a “bill or Attainder”
A
bill of attainder (also known as an
act or
writ of
attainder) is an act of the
legislature declaring a person or group of persons guilty of some crime and punishing them without benefit of a trial.
So, this bill favors the NRA, Unions, and large organizations while punishing smaller groups such as: local Tea party groups, chambers of commerce, etc. These discriminatory laws divide our country further and move us more towards complete elitist class rule.
Your thoughts are welcome!
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