Campaign Funds
The Supreme Court decision regarding campaign spending limitations is based on spurious reasoning (June 27). The justices claim that spending limitations violate free speech rights. In fact the opposite occurs. The court seems to equate dollars as speech. This gives the rich and powerful the ability to buy all the votes necessary to maintain their position.
On the other hand, millions of average Americans who do not possess the dollars lose their so-called free speech. The one-man, one-vote principle is obsolete.
To limit the amount of dollars in politics will give speech back to millions of people and return the country to a democracy once again.
SANFORD DUROFF
Tarzana
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