Democracy for Sale
Five years ago Citizens United spearheaded a campaign to steal the people's power and unfortunately the Supreme Court decided to rule in favor of the controversial right-wing group, in the devastating ruling of Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission. This disastrous move by the "Supreme Court scrapped the previous campaign finance laws and essentially declared that companies are allowed to buy politicians by circumventing restrictions via PACs, political action committees" (Tedford), thus stealing the power of the masses and giving our power to those whose bank accounts resemble that of a country's population. Sadly, the affluent 1% of Americans hold more power than the other 99% of this nation because of the current government's pay to win democracy. Without any …show more content…
This concept would work in a perfect world, but if this was a perfect world communism would work as well. Trickle down economics does not work and will never work, for example, if a CEO's income is doubled it does not mean he will double his worker's salaries, because people are often greedy and want only the best for themselves, and they care not for the single mother working three jobs, CEOs care about padding their wallets not about the wellbeing of the cogs in their money-grubbing machine, and it's so ridiculous that those same "CEO's who pay employees next to nothing, but have a salary that is often over 1000 times that of their
Five years ago Citizens United spearheaded a campaign to steal the people's power and unfortunately the Supreme Court decided to rule in favor of the controversial right-wing group, in the devastating ruling of Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission. This disastrous move by the "Supreme Court scrapped the previous campaign finance laws and essentially declared that companies are allowed to buy politicians by circumventing restrictions via PACs, political action committees" (Tedford), thus stealing the power of the masses and giving our power to those whose bank accounts resemble that of a country's population. Sadly, the affluent 1% of Americans hold more power than the other 99% of this nation because of the current government's pay to win democracy. Without any …show more content…
This concept would work in a perfect world, but if this was a perfect world communism would work as well. Trickle down economics does not work and will never work, for example, if a CEO's income is doubled it does not mean he will double his worker's salaries, because people are often greedy and want only the best for themselves, and they care not for the single mother working three jobs, CEOs care about padding their wallets not about the wellbeing of the cogs in their money-grubbing machine, and it's so ridiculous that those same "CEO's who pay employees next to nothing, but have a salary that is often over 1000 times that of their