[EL] Rousseau and McCutcheon

JBoppjr at aol.com JBoppjr at aol.com
Tue Apr 8 06:20:58 PDT 2014


The facts just do not support the idea that our current political system  
favors the rich generally:
 
Whatever  donors’ influence, government isn’t the preserve of the wealthy 
or business  interests. Most federal spending goes to the poor and the 
middle class  (_70  percent in 2014 are “payments for individuals,”_ 
(http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/budget/Historicals)  says the Office of Management and  
Budget, for Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, food stamps and other  
programs), and most taxes are paid by the richest 10 percent (_53 percent of all 
 federal taxes in 2010_ (http://www.cbo.gov/publication/44604) ,  says the 
Congressional Budget Office). Most regulations target businesses. Sure,  
business groups and the rich sometimes secure favorable regulations, tax breaks 
 and subsidies. But their triumphs are a small part of the picture.
 
 
_Click  here: Robert J. Samuelson: In politics, money is speech - The 
Washington  Post_ 
(http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/robert-j-samuelson-in-politics-money-is-speech/2014/04/04/075df4ec-bc18-11e3-9a05-c739f29ccb08_story
.html?hpid=z5)  
 
I understand that not every favored liberal program has not yet been  
adopted but generally the wealthiest are really already paying most of the  
freight.  Jim Bopp

 
 
In a message dated 4/8/2014 12:42:05 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
mpoweru4 at gmail.com writes:

These kinds of abstractions, glittering generalities, and apples  to 
oranges comparisons don't illuminate much.  


Compare the circumstances of Millie, who has $2M in assets, of which $1M  
is wrapped up in a closely held paving firm, with Billy, who has $2B in 
assets  with $1B wrapped up in a closely held paving firm. The only real 
difference in  the interests of these firms is that Millie's business paves mostly 
driveways,  parking lots, and roads in small subdivisions, while Billy's 
business is  involved with paving major city and county roads and highways. 
Normally, they  can expect their respective companies to achieve a 15% per annum 
profit on the  value of the companies. 


Both of these firms might benefit from improvements in the transportation  
infrastructure generally: Billy's business could get contracts, and Millie's 
 business could see long-term gains from additional or improved roads, 
which  could create additional housing and business developments, providing 
smaller  opportunities in local communities.


And the country could benefit as a whole from improving its aging  
infrastructure if the best and most urgent of these projects were  approved.


But neither of these businesses are likely to put much campaign money  
toward the general cause of getting more money to improve the transportation  
infrastructure nationwide. Neither one would get a good return for these  
"investments" because the costs of the investments would directly hit each of  
their bottom lines, while the benefits are diffused among paving businesses  
nationwide, and they may not get any of this money at all. 


It pays to let George make the donations towards good government here,  but 
George feels the same way, and so nobody does it.


On the other hand, let us suppose there is a good probability that though  
political donations an unneeded, financially wasteful and environmentally  
unwise highway project might come through the area, and Billy's firm would  
likely get the contract and increase profits to 25% for a few years. It would 
 make sense for Billy to write campaign checks up to the $3.6 million that  
McCutcheon now allows because that kind of money from this single source 
could  significantly increase the chances that the project would be approved, 
and the  investment could yield a 5000% return. The lawmakers receiving the 
funds would  make it their business to know what Billy's firm's interests 
are, and would  understand -- or could be helped to understand -- that if they 
did not help  get the particular project approved, those donations would 
likely not be  forthcoming in future -- no express quid pro quo needed. Billy 
is rich enough  that he need not organize much to get his way on issues like 
this in Congress.  His money alone sways things when it comes to such 
specific projects. And  given the scale of the Federal budget, this boondoggle -- 
however meaningful  to Billy -- would almost certainly go unnoticed by the 
voters in the districts  of the Congressmen who accept Billy's money.


Millie cannot afford the funds to make federal donations that would make  a 
difference on this project, or virtually any other specific federal project 
 that could make a real difference to her business bottom line. She can 
only  make meaningful donations to one or two Congressmen, not enough to pull 
off a  boondoggle on this scale. Trying to organize the small scale paving 
companies  along the prospective path of the unwise highway is difficult for 
her because  she would face the same "free rider" problems that she would 
experience in  trying to improve the US transportation infrastructure 
generally. George is  still uninterested. 


So the free rider effect protects the public from bad investments and bad   
public policy decisions that are the result of Millie's special interests, 
but  not so much Billy's interests anymore. Moreover, businesses of Billy's 
size  are able to get profits and unfair advantages from political 
inefficiencies of  this sort. Millie cannot. Big business gets unfairly subsidized to 
the public  detriment, and everything gets put askew.


These are among the significant perverse effects of  McCutcheon. 




On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 4:38 PM, <_JBoppjr at aol.com_ (mailto:JBoppjr at aol.com) 
> wrote:


Yep, the liberal agenda is just not being adopted fast enough, so we  just 
need to shut up the voices of the nopposition so that we will have  a health 
political system.  Jim Bopp
 
 

 
In a message dated 4/7/2014 1:24:21 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, 
_richardwinger at yahoo.com_ (mailto:richardwinger at yahoo.com)  writes:

The  health of the British political system today seems far, far better 
than  the health of the U.S. political system.  This year in particular,  
Congress seems unable to do anything useful.  Many judicial vacancies  haven't 
been filled.  Immigration reform is stalled, marijuana policy  is stalled, tax 
reform is stalled, a coherent campaign finance policy is  stalled.  



Richard Winger
_415-922-9779_ (tel:415-922-9779) _415-922-9779_ (tel:415-922-9779) 
PO  Box 470296, San Francisco Ca 94147



 
  
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We don’t have to go to Europe in the 1940’s to see that  government 
control of political finances is not the solution to political  alienation and 
rule by elites.  Italy recently scrapped its system of  publicly financed 
parties, in large measure because of corruption and the  feeling among 
middle-class Italians that it was geared towards  establishing and reinforcing a 
system favoring the rich and connected  insiders.
 
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-25370808  

England has almost entirely publicly funded politics—it doesn’t  even 
permit independently funded issue advertisements.  It too  suffers from low 
voter turnout, a lack of belief in political efficacy,  and a perception that 
politics is sclerotic and atrophying.   

Moreover, in most of Europe, which features far more control of  political 
speech and activity than the United States, there has been a  rise of 
extreme groups outside of the main political parties, ranging from  the outright 
sinister (Greece’s Golden Dawn) to the also sinister  (France’s National 
Front) to more moderate parties that nonetheless  represent deep alienation 
from the ruling establishment (Britain’s UKIP  and Italy’s Five Star Movement).
 
Is all this the result of government control (or, more  accurately, 
government occupation of huge amounts) of opportunities for  peaceful political 
activity?  Most certainly not.  But it does  suggest that such control is not 
cure for corruption, alienation,  extremism, and rule by elites and may, in 
fact, exacerbate or even make  permanent all of them.
 
Bill
 
 
 
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Subject:  Re: [EL] Rousseau and McCutcheon


 
 
Interesting question but reelection  rates are also effected dramatically 
by partisan redistricting, as well as  other factors, so it is hard to 
isolate just campaign finance rules  to see it there is a correlation.  Jim Bopp

 


 
 
In a message dated 4/7/2014 7:56:21  A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, 
_adam at boninlaw.com_ (mailto:adam at boninlaw.com)  writes:


 
Well, there’s plenty  of states (I live in one) without campaign finance 
limits for state and  local races.  What are the incumbency retention rates 
for  legislators in limits states versus no-limits states?
 
 
 
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Subject:  Re: [EL] Rousseau and McCutcheon


 
 
I think there is good evidence that  campaign finance limits, being written 
by incumbents, favor incumbents.  Thus, the government writes the rules for 
campaign speech, and they  are the governors.

 


 
Sorry, I did not take French, if that  is what it is.  Jim Bopp

 


 
 
In a message dated 4/6/2014 10:45:02  P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, 
_oregon.properties at yahoo.com_ (mailto:oregon.properties at yahoo.com)  writes:


 
What Jim and Brad are calling for,  no limits and no disclosure is an 
attack on the ability of "the  governed" 

 

Sent from my  iPhone

 

On  Apr 6, 2014, at 6:25 PM, John Tanner <_john.k.tanner at gmail.com_ 
(mailto:john.k.tanner at gmail.com) >  wrote:


 
 
Revenons a nos  moutons

Sent from my iPad

 

On Apr 6, 2014, at 9:22 PM, David Lublin  <_dlublin at american.edu_ 
(mailto:dlublin at american.edu) > wrote:


 
 
Geez somehow doesn't seem like  the quite right choice of expression here 
;) 
 


 
At serious risk of beating the  long-dead horse, there was no other period 
where Jews, Catholics,  Gypsies, and Communists were targeted in German 
history at the  same time. Pol Pot was genocidal, which also doesn't fit other  
periods in German history.

 


 
Even if one accepted your  dubious premise, the suggestion that democracies 
that regulate  campaign finance, like Canada and the UK, are "suppressive" 
of the  wealthy in the manner of either the  
yet-to-be-named-but-definitely-not-Nazi period of German history  or Pol Pot is hyperbolic and unworthy of 
the arguments for the  side you claim to defend.

 


 
While I think that the Court's  majority, let alone the First Amendment, 
deserves a better public  defense, I'm sure BCRA's defenders would love to see 
you keep  making it, as you play right into their hands.

 


 
I hope all have a good Sunday  night whatever their opinions on McCutcheon. 
If any of you felt  constrained by the previous limits, please contact me 
so I can hit  you up if I should run for office again.

 


 
Best,

 
David

 



 

 
On Sun, Apr 6, 2014 at 7:57 PM,  <_JBoppjr at aol.com_ 
(mailto:JBoppjr at aol.com) >  wrote:
 
 
Geeze.  Over decades, as  you concede, the German govt did target Jews and 
Catholics in the  name of the German volk -- before Hitler.  Just because  
Hitler did it too does not make it out of bounds to discuss what  the German 
govt did before him, as you suggest.

 


 
And yes I hid it well  because I was not doing it.  

 


 
So the problem here is that the  government is suppressing the freedom of 
some -- rich people -- in  the name of allowing the "authentic" voice of the 
people to be  heard. There is a long history of governments doing so, 
sometimes  with modest measures, like speech restrictions through campaign  
finance measures, sometimes not, in order to get their  favored policy agenda 
implimented.  

 


 
But the point is that this is  just what campaign finance "reformers" are 
doing  now.  Jim

 
 
 


 
 
In a message dated 4/6/2014  5:47:20 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, 
_dlublin at american.edu_ (mailto:dlublin at american.edu)  writes:


 
Jim, 
 


 
You stated that "the German  government targeted Jews, gypsies, Catholics 
and Communists . .  . "? Most minds would tend to go to Nazi Germany headed 
by  Hitler at that point. It wasn't the Weimar Republic and I don't  think 
the last period of the German Empire particularly targeted  Catholics. Any 
earlier and there wouldn't be any Communists to  target. The mention of Pol Pot 
would seem to be a clue too.  
 


 
So if you weren't meaning to  invoke Hitler and this period, you hid it  
well.

 


 
In any case, there's a reason  that Martin Niemöller's famous quote doesn't 
begin with "First,  they instituted campaign finance reform and I did not 
speak out  -- Because I was not a major donor."

 


 
Again, dialing it back would  be welcome here. If the Supreme Court managed 
to make the  argument without Rwanda, Nazi Germany, and Cambodia, I am  
confident that you can do the same.

 


 
David

 


 




 

 
On Sun, Apr 6, 2014 at 5:31  PM, <_JBoppjr at aol.com_ 
(mailto:JBoppjr at aol.com) > wrote:
 
 
Furthermore, I  purposefully did not invoke Hitler.  (1) I agree that he  
was "very distinguished in his field," and (2) the concept of  the German 
volk, and that Jews were an enemy of the volk, long  preceded Hitler's rise to 
power, even though he avidly believed  it, exploited it for his own 
political purposes and took it to  extreme's never imagined by its most feverish 
supporters before  his time.  Jim Bopp

 


 
 
In a message dated 4/6/2014  3:13:50 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, 
_JBoppjr at aol.com_ (mailto:JBoppjr at aol.com)   writes:


 
Regarding  this:

 
 


 
Oh, and you forgot  Rwanda.

 



 
 
Yes, so many examples but  so little space.  Jim Bopp

 



 
 
 
In a message dated 4/6/2014  1:22:26 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, 
_dlublin at american.edu_ (mailto:dlublin at american.edu)   writes:



 
I haven't read all of  this debate but it's always good to see _Godwin's 
law_ (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin's_law)  proved again.  
 
 


 
I remember Prof. Judith  Shklar, whose family fled Germany, teaching my 
graduate  political theory class to avoid comparisons to Hitler  because "he 
was very distinguished in his  field."

 


 
Surely, one can make a  strong argument against campaign finance reform 
without  having to go there.

 


 
Oh, and you forgot  Rwanda.

 


 
David

 


 
-- 
 
David Lublin
Professor  of Government
School of Public Affairs
American  University
4400 Massachusetts Ave.
Washington, D.C.  20016
http://davidlublin.com/


 



 

 
 
On Sun, Apr 6, 2014 at  10:08 AM, <_JBoppjr at aol.com_ 
(mailto:JBoppjr at aol.com) >  wrote:


 
 
 
One of the side  benefits of the McCutcheon case is that it has revealed  
what the campaign finance "reformers" are really all  about.

 


 
First, their goal is  the typical liberal agenda.  Then they identify those 
 who they think are opponents to that agenda --  corporations, the "rich.". 
 Then they support  legislation to shut them up.

 


 
Of course they dress  this up as regulating the system -- the "collective"  
voices of the people -- to make sure that the  authentic "will of the 
people" is heard by suppressing  those voices that distort that will -- by 
misleading  convincing some and drowning out  others.

 


 
This approach does have  its roots deep in our history and is frequently 
the  justification for tyranny.

 


 
The communists  suppressed the bourgeoisie in the name of  the proletariat. 
 Pol Pot destroyed the urban  dwellers in the name of rural dwellers.  The 
German  government targeted the Jews, gypsies, Catholics and  communists as 
the enemy of the German volk. All these  enemies of the people had to be 
silenced to defend the  authentic will of the people.

 


 
Breyer acknowledges  that he is countenancing the violation of the First  
Amendment rights of the "rich," but justifies it as  ensuring that the 
authentic will of the people will be  heard through the "collective" speech of the 
people. And  he lets the government pick the voices to be  surpressed.

 


 
So Breyer sets it  all out clearly, as does mpoweru4 below, obviously  
limiting their retribution to be visited on the enemies of  the people to 
campaign finance limits -- while others in  our history were much more willing to 
use the full power  of government against them.

 


 
Their problem is that  the First Amendment was adopted to protect the very 
speech  that Breyer, et al are so willing to violate in the name  of the 
collective.  So they have to pretend that they  are the ones writing a First 
Amendment -- balance the  First Amendment interests involved -- while this  
balancing has already been done and the First Amendment  already written by 
our Founders. And that amendment  was written to protect individual freedom 
against the  efforts of the collective to suppress their speech --  regardless 
of whether the government thinks that that  speech is helpful to democracy 
or not.  Jim  Bopp


 
 
 


 
 
 
In a message dated  4/6/2014 8:08:56 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, 
_mpoweru4 at gmail.com_ (mailto:mpoweru4 at gmail.com)   writes:



 
 
To get a sense of the  consequences, one might think not only about the 
types  of players, but the interests they represent. The demise  of aggregate 
limits plays mightily into the hands not  only of rich people in general, but 
of rich people who  have highly focused interests.  
 


 
The "general will" if  it means anything at all, would correspond to more  
generalized interests like protecting the environment,  building economic 
strength, preventing economic  collapse, helping people devastated by weather  
emergencies, and maintaining transportation  infrastructure.

 


 
The very wealthy,  operating from self-interest, are not likely to define  
their agenda in such general terms. They would likely be  focused on very 
particularized corresponding interests,  eg: resisting EPA jurisdiction over a 
certain sector of  the energy industry; tax incentives for research and  
hedge funds; stopping a requirement for a level of  capitalization in banks; 
maintaining flood insurance  program that will pay to rebuild buildings in  
developments under construction too close to a rising  ocean; and building a 
certain unnecessary road using  particular contractors or sources for  
asphalt.

 


 
The right analyst for  this is Prof. Mancur Olsen. He explains how 
empowering  special interests causes political outcomes not  consonant with the 
interests of the people in a republic  in his "Logic of Collective Action." In 
his "Rise and  Decline of Nations" he develops a theory of the  pernicious 
consequences on the republic over  time.



 

 
 
On Fri, Apr 4, 2014  at 7:05 PM, John Tanner <_john.k.tanner at gmail.com_ 
(mailto:john.k.tanner at gmail.com) >  wrote:


 
 
apologies.  I  was skimming comments on the  2d


 
 
 

 
 
On  Fri, Apr 4, 2014 at 6:47 PM, Scarberry, Mark 
<_Mark.Scarberry at pepperdine.edu_ (mailto:Mark.Scarberry at pepperdine.edu) >  wrote:


 
 
 
My  4/2 post (scroll way down to see it) was probably  too long for most 
list members to wade through. It  raised concerns about the reference to 
Rousseau,  whose pernicious concept of the general will could  find a place in an 
analysis like Justice  Breyer's.

 


 
I  don't think Breyer meant to suggest it, but one  reason to make sure the 
voices of the rich don't  drown out other voices is so that the people 
won't  develop "false consciousness." We must be saved by  the government from 
being persuaded by the loud  voices of the rich.

 


 
I  very much dislike arrogant rich people who think  they know better. I 
even more distrust a government  that wants to protect my ability to think 
clearly  about what is in my interest and in the public  interest.

 


 
Mark  Scarberry

 
Pepperdine

 


 



 
 
 
Sent from my  Verizon Wireless 4G LTE  Smartphone


 
--------  Original message --------
From: Benjamin Barr  
Date:04/04/2014 3:17 PM (GMT-08:00) 
To: John  Tanner 
Cc: Election law list 
Subject: Re:  [EL] McCutcheon 
John,
This is  Breyer's usual three card monte. To collectivize the  Bill of 
Rights he relied on the writings of Benjamin  Constant in his Active Liberty 
tome (expanding all  the positive "values" implicated by the First  Amendment - 
none of which seem relevant to the  American founding or history of the 
First  Amendment). This dissent is just a continuation of  the same bad theme. 
This profound  difference in viewing the Bill of Rights as a  charter of 
"negative" or "positive" liberties is  also at root what separates many 
reformers from free  speech advocates on this listserv and more  broadly.
Forward,
Benjamin Barr  
Sent by my  Android device. Please excuse any typographical  errors.

 
 
On  Apr 4, 2014 6:06 PM, "John Tanner" <_john.k.tanner at gmail.com_ 
(mailto:john.k.tanner at gmail.com) >  wrote:


 
 
Not to  change the subject, but I'm surprised that no one  has remarked on 
the dissent's invocation of  Rousseau's Social Contract, which was far more  
influential on the French Revolution (and  particularly the thought of St 
Just and  Robespierre) than the American, where the strong  preference for 
Locke and Montesquieu has pointed  in a different direction.  It seems odd,  
off-key and, wandering well away from the subject,  I wonder if it prompted 
the counter-invocation of  Burke - and the brandishing of the dissent's  
impolitic choice of the word,  "collective." 


 

 
 
On Thu, Apr  3, 2014 at 8:49 AM, Tyler Culberson 
<_tylerculberson at gmail.com_ (mailto:tylerculberson at gmail.com) >  wrote:


 
 
These  figures derived from a Bob Biersack piece at  OpenSecrets: 
https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2013/09/mccutcheons-multiplying-effect-why.html


 
 
 

 
 
On Thu,  Apr 3, 2014 at 8:45 AM, Tyler Culberson 
<_tylerculberson at gmail.com_ (mailto:tylerculberson at gmail.com) >  wrote:


 
 
Doug,   
 
>From  Commissioners Ravel and Weintraub's statement  yesterday, "In fact, 
only 646 donors reached the  biennial limit during the 2012  cycle."



 

 
 
 
 
On Wed,  Apr 2, 2014 at 7:24 PM, Scarberry, Mark 
<_Mark.Scarberry at pepperdine.edu_ (mailto:Mark.Scarberry at pepperdine.edu) >  wrote:




 
 
 
 
 
Can we  distinguish between two “anti-corruption”  interests that could be 
seen as being addressed  by the dissent in McCutcheon?
 
The  first is the interest in keeping lines of  communication open between 
ordinary people and  their elected representatives, so as to make  
representative government responsive to the  people *between elections*. High levels  
of donations cause representatives to listen  only (or mostly) to the rich 
donors, breaking  the link between ordinary people and their  
representatives. The voice of the ordinary  person is drowned out by the voice of the rich 
 donor, because the representative will listen  only (or mostly) to the 
voice of the rich donor.  With a reference to Rousseau (which one hopes  does 
not incorporate his concept of the “general  will”), the dissent treats the 
breaking of that  link as a form of corruption. 
 
The  second is the interest in the formation of the  views of the people; 
the formation of those  views may be corrupted if too much money is  spent by 
rich people to help form those views or  to finance the formation of such 
views. Here we  run dangerously close to the concept of the  “general will,” 
a true will of the people that  somehow is different from what they really  
think, because their thinking has been warped by  the spending of so much 
money by the rich  (perhaps creating a “false consciousness”). The  spending 
of huge amounts of money by the rich in  furthering their own views drowns 
out the voices  of the ordinary people, as both the rich speaker  and the 
ordinary speaker try to convey their  views to the people and to persuade the  
people.
 
Is it  clear that the dissent only sees the first of  those interests as an 
“anti-corruption” interest  that justifies campaign finance regulation? 
(At  first I wasn’t sure, especially given the  “drowning out” imagery, but a 
more careful  reading leads me to this  conclusion.)
 
Is it  also clear that the first interest has nothing  to do with which 
person is elected, but rather  with who the elected person will listen to once  
elected? Thus it has nothing to do with any  desire to level the playing 
field for the  election, right? Instead it has to do with the  actions that 
will be taken by the person once  elected, which makes it similar to a concern 
 about quid pro quo corruption.
 
My  apologies if I’m asking the list to reinvent the  wheel.
 
Mark
 

Mark S.  Scarberry
Professor  of Law
Pepperdine  Univ. School of Law



 



 
 
 
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