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Do you think TFA is a special interest?: “Get up, Stand Up” | Cloaking Inequity

Do you think TFA is a special interest?: “Get up, Stand Up” | Cloaking Inequity:

Do you think TFA is a special interest?: “Get up, Stand Up”

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A century ago, President Teddy Roosevelt railed against special interests controlling our government:
Just as the special interest of cotton and slavery had threaten the nations integrity before the civil war, so now the great special business interest who often control and corrupt the men and methods of government for their own profit.
The Constitution does not give the right of suffrage to any corporation. The citizens of the United States must effectively control the mighty Commercial forces which they have called into being.
Laws should be passed to prohibit the use of corporate funds directly or indirectly for political purposes.