The Boston Tea Party, for example, was a protest not only against the British crown but against a Crown-protected business monopoly. In 1907, President Theodore Roosevelt, responding to a grassroots movement, passed a law saying that no corporation could give any money to a political campaign. The unions soon began to act like big business. Therefore, in 1947, Congress passed a law barring unions from giving money to a campaign. Then in the general elections, they could both do it again.
Some corporations even furnish their employees with the money with which to do it.
Then they collect it. Soft money began innocently after Watergate as a non-federal fund established to get the vote out, so the money wasn't tracked and there were no limits, Haddock explains. One must stay alert. Voters denied choice stay away from the polls. His big backers are not trying to get him elected.