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Leslie's avatar

How successful has it been to have police policing themselves? It’s been a TOTAL FAILURE and corporate transparency will be too as long as we leave it up to corporations and shareholders to make the decisions ie: ‘police themselves’ which, in my humble opinion, is an oxymoron. There must be laws in place regarding this. Better yet; stop allowing any corporate money to buy our politicians and start using our individual taxpayer dollars to pay for it. We could cap spending, put a stop to the long drawn out process and limit the time period of running to 4-6 months, and, best of all, elect people who actually represent us as in ‘we the people’ instead of corporate America!!

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Shelley Alpern's avatar

These proposals don't hurt the cause of regulation; they ultimately help it. Because of the nearly 2-decade campaign that has led hundreds of companies to disclose more information about their political spending, the SEC is considering a rule that requires it. Maddeningly slow? Yes. But does Congress move any faster? It's fruitless to pit one tactic against another.

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