February 2, 2013
Dear Members of the Securities and Exchange Commission:
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.
Dear FEC
We need disclosure and the primary reason is this: It took our founding fathers to realize that Church and State need to be separated to prevent endless civil strife and a maldistribution of wealth and resources. We now desperately need separation between Corporations and State for the same purposes.
A needed start to this path is FULL disclosure of the flow of corporate largesse and to whom it is going.
Thank you,
William Iwen