February 1, 2013
Dear Members of the Securities and Exchange Commission:
It's long past time to end secret political spending by corporations.
They are not people. These are many of the same businesses that are using huge sums of money to sway elections all over the country in order to have laws and regulations written to favor the corporation and leave individual citizens without legal recourse when a person is harmed, killed, maimed or poisoned. Enough!
So I strongly support the SEC issuing a rule in the near future that would require publicly traded corporations to publicly disclose all their spending on political activities.
Both shareholders and the public deserve to know how much a given corporation spends on politics (directly and through intermediaries), and which candidates are being promoted or attacked.
Thank you for considering my comment.
Sincerely,
Susaan Aram