The Super PAC

The practice of PACs has been around since the dawn of the United States. However, it has only been in the past few months of the Republican Primary that many start to question their involvement in the political system. A "P.A.C" or Political Action Committee is basically a pool of donations and investments from the largest of corporations to the average citizen. Candidate's then can access money from the PACs for financing advertisements and rallies in order to gain voters confidence. Generally the PACs are allowed to be run by the candidate and are limited by the FEC (Federal Election Commission) to $5,000 per donor. This was to prevent unfair financial gain that some candidates have over others. Though in the growing American population $5,000 didn't seem enough to get votes thus gives rise to the Super PACs. Super PACs are unregulated funds that indirectly allow a candidate to tap into an ultimated amount of financing for their campaigns. Since they are not controlled by the candidate, rather his friend lawyers argue that their is technically not collaborative work happening that would violate the FEC laws. Instead the "Super PACs" would simple pay for all the merchandise, advertisements, and political rallies separately and have the candidate show up like nothing happened. The issue that raises concerns about Super PACs revoles primary around Republican front runner, Mitt Romney.

Romney's PAC receives 50 odd donors that are all Fortune 500 companies and an undisclosed amount of private citizens. ln fact the known net worth of Romney's PAC is worth around 15 million but many experts say it is probably around 40-60 million. He has used this endless supply of funds to sweep through 5 states with land slide results by filling the media with campaign adds and other political slander that persuades people to vote for him. The problem is that because Romney has all this money at his disposal he now has an unfair advantage over the other Republican Nominees. With this advantage he has gained the Front Runner status and is favored to go to the final round of elections challenging President Obama's title. The odd thing about the situation is that in the eyes of a large portion of Americans, Romney is a complete fool yet thanks to bis millions he is no able to "pay for votes" instead of earn them.

Many actions have taken place to prevent the extensive use of these Super PACs but unfortunately it is against the US Constitution for the Government to interfere (heavily) with "personal" finance because it infringes on the civil and economic liberties of citizens. The real question is does the use of Super Packs promote stable capitalistic elections in order to reach out to millions of Americans or do these funds corrupt the largest voting system on the planet?