February 4, 2013
Dear Members of the Securities and Exchange Commission:
I hope you members of the SEC still really want an American life that can be played out on an even playing field. Your actions will tell us if you are with the more greedy of our citizens or the majority who have been shut out of a fair game. There has not been a fair game since the anti-trust laws were torn up.
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,
Mary Alice Tanner