As many times as Congress has tried to get campaign spending until control, eventually enough Justices get on the Supreme Court to rule that ANY curtailment of ANY amount of money in political campaigning is okay. That leads to the wealthy, including corporations, having SO much more power than the average person that their megaphones drown out everyone else’s speech. Freedom of speech is worthless if you can never be heard. So:

The Money Is Not Speech Amendment

Money is not speech. Annual contributions, expenditures, and transfer of any items of value, per person or group, for any political purpose, in excess of ONE QUARTER of the most recent median per capita income may be regulated in a fair and equal fashion (no playing with words to give an edge or favor to any person, group, or party).

Just because a person has become wildly successful in business should not give them the right or the ability to drown out all other political discussion by flooding the discourse with hundreds of millions of dollars. Likewise, wealthy persons and corporations shouldn’t be able to buy politicians and their votes with enormous contributions to “their campaign funds,” or other (wink-wink) ways of funneling cash to candidates, their spouses, etc.

We should all have the freedom to speak our minds, to talk to others, to influence the future of our society. But if one person’s “freedom of speech” becomes inordinately greater than others’ freedom of speech, then the freedom of speech of the others actually becomes diminished. In order to guarantee ANY freedom for the members of society, the Constitution must guarantee the BALANCE of freedoms.

-Everett