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yellojktThe FEC has updated the campaign contribution limits for the 2014 cycle.
FEC Increases Contribution Limits for 2014
By Kyle Trygstad Posted at 10:19 p.m. on Jan. 29The Federal Election Commission increased the limits on contributions that individuals can give to candidates for federal office and national party committees in the 2014 election cycle.
Individual donors can now contribute up to $2,600 to a candidate in both the primary and general elections — $5,200 total — and $32,400 per calendar year to national party committees. The total amount of federal contributions that an individual can give during a two-year cycle also increased to $123,200, including $48,600 to candidates and $74,600 to parties and political action committees.
Those and other contribution limit figures are indexed for inflation as directed in the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002, better known as McCain-Feingold, and generally increase with every election cycle.
The individual donation to candidates has gone up about $100 per election — from $2,100 in the 2006 cycle to $2,300 in 2008, $2,400 in 2010 and $2,500 in 2012. Individual donation limits to national party committees was $30,800 per calendar year in 2012 and $26,700 in 2006.
This cycle, the limit on national party contributions to Senate candidates went up to $45,400. They were limited to $43,100 in 2012 and $37,300 in 2006.
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All Things in Moderation 
I’m a First Amendment Absolutist and agree with George Will and the Supreme Court that money is speech but there is a certain irony that the maximum combined federal campaign contribution is well north of the total household income of 80% of the United States.
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My lobbying disclosure is due today — another quarter with $0 across the board.
but quite frankly, i’ll be expected to contribute to the PAC if I get promoted.
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“yellojkt, on January 30, 2013 at 7:54 am said:
I’m a First Amendment Absolutist “
See there is common ground to be had. Now to extend that to the rest of the Bill of Rights including the inconvenient Second Amendment.
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Touche.
The risks of unfettered free speech are much less dangerous than unrestricted firearm ownership. One doesn’t have the right to yell ‘Fire!’ in a crowded theater so one shouldn’t have the right to open fire either.
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YJ, even for 1st A advocates [I am one too] the questions arise over time place and manner restrictions. One can yell “fire” in a theater if there is in fact a fire. How many persons get to talk at the same time from the podium? Can the audience shout down the speaker? Can a Fundie church picket a GI’s funeral and insult his memory to the mourners? Can a strike picket line effectively block entrance to a business? Can anti-abortion picket lines effectively block entrance to an abortionist’s office? How are limited air waves assigned?
These are familiar issues. They involve competing rights and competing liberties.
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Popehat has a very long piece on Holmes, censorship, and the “fire” line.
http://www.popehat.com/2012/09/19/three-generations-of-a-hackneyed-apologia-for-censorship-are-enough/
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“yellojkt, on January 30, 2013 at 8:52 am said:
Touche.
The risks of unfettered free speech are much less dangerous than unrestricted firearm ownership. One doesn’t have the right to yell ‘Fire!’ in a crowded theater so one shouldn’t have the right to open fire either.”
Fair point. I believe the logical way to look at this is that since political speech was clearly what was meant to receive the most protection under the First Amendment, proposals to restrict political speech should receive the highest scrutiny.
Still, every so often I like to thunder with righteous indignation the phrase:
“What part of CONGRESS SHALL MAKE NO LAW is unclear?”
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On a more micro level, the FL lege appears to be ready to take up campaign finance reform this session.
http://www.tampabay.com/blogs/the-buzz-florida-politics/content/floridas-campaign-finance-shell-game-comes-under-review-house
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