February 2, 2013
Dear Members of the Securities and Exchange Commission:
This country is being ruined by the wealthy big bussiness. They want to make great profits and return nothing to the people, who by the way are the government! Karl Marx predicted that this would happen. In a capitalistic society without controls on the rich; the rich will become richer and the poor will become poorer. How pathetic that such a man could be correct.
It's long past time to end secret political spending by corporations.
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,
Jim Patrick