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Re:MayDay PAC by warfangle on Saturday July 05, 2014 @12:26AM (#7991028)
If money is speech, and speech is free, where's my free money?

If money is speech, especially with regard to politics, lack of money is the stifling of speech (and to an extent, indirect disenfranchisement). Ergo, through not giving those without money any funds with which to perform their speech, the government is violating the first amendment.

Re:MayDay PAC by dantheman on Saturday July 05, 2014 @02:00AM (#7991169)
Free speech means the government cannot stop you from speaking, not that it needs to provide you with a printing press.
Re:MayDay PAC by warfangle on Saturday July 05, 2014 @05:07PM (#7992951)
Yet by denying the capital to speak, it inherently stops you from speaking.

This reducto ad absurdium is meant to illustrate that money, while necessary for a bullhorn, is not speech in and of itself.