Mccutcheon Court Case Study

Ever since the Citizens United court case ruling and the McCutcheon court case ruling in late 2013 and early 2014, individuals have been able to pour an unregulated amount money into the campaign funds of their chosen political candidate. At first this does not seem like such a terrible idea until it is realized that the wealthy in America can and are exploiting this system to buy politicians and greatly persuade the votes given by that politician to help the wealthy get wealthier. These two court case rulings can be directly tied to three very large problems in America: legal bribery of federal politicians, federal politicians ignoring the voters and only listening to the donators and federal politicians voting in ways to appease their donators

There are a few ways that can easily appease the donators that most politicians have done. Politicians have given the wealthy and large corporations large tax breaks. This is why most large corporations with a half decent law firm are able to pay the same tax rate as average Americans. This reduces the expenses of the corporations and increases their profits significantly. Another thing that the politicians can do to appease the donors it do de-regulate the industries that the donating corporations are in. This obviously will no longer get through congress after the California incident in the 1990’s so the politicians no longer add regulations to the industries even if new information comes out about possible harm to the environment. This allows for the companies to save a large amount of money by being able to continue using old equipment that would not meet new safety or emissions standards that would be put in place if the politicians weren’t being paid not to add