The media mysteriously seems to have forgotten all this.

[Sensible321]

35. Your point is spot-on, but we picked the wrong battle in that SCOTUS case.

Trying to 'limit corporate speech' was the wrong angle. Ownership of the airwaves was the correct tactic. The public has zero democratic-say in what goes gets "broadcast" over the airwaves. The Internet is mitigating this, to some extent, but people still think "if its not on Tee Vee it isn't real." Therefore, democratizing the airwaves was the solution, not trying to tell people what they could or could not say. Clearly, a "worker's party" cannot compete with Billionaires in a Capital-Ownership-Driven Media Marketplace, as Air America demonstrated.

Further, the 'tax loophole' sideshow only exists because of the way we collect taxes / provide social-services. If every American owned an equal share of our Natural Resources and Farmland, there would be no need for taxes to fund handouts to 'offset the hardship' of wage-slavery and unemployment.

But the dual-resentment-dynamic which pits the Bougis against the Proles, so that the Elite-Billionaires can continue to Rule both, would be reduced by an order of magnitude sans the current tax-framework. Therefore, this system to "externalize" the cost of maintaining the Billionaires' "human resources" (you and me) was concocted in place of the solution to the underlying problem, which requires removing the Billionaires from Power entirely.