Why Campaign Finance Rules Make Free Speech Expensive For The Little Guy.

[Free Vulcan]

The great thing about free speech is that it is, in fact, free. You don’t have to spend a single penny to speak your mind—just ask the local street-corner preacher or campus protester. Being heard is what costs money, and in the robust marketplace for political speech, it takes a whole lot of money to spread a convincing message that influences our politics.

Conveying political ideas, whether for or against an issue or candidate, requires a compelling, persuasive message effectively delivered multiple times to the right audience. Most of us, even if we have good ideas, aren’t always effective at delivering the most persuasive version of our vision.

If your goal is persuading others to support your views (and effective political speech often requires persuading a great many people), it helps to have on your side professionals who know how to craft political communications. Their job is to help you deliver the most persuasive message so you can be effective in building a movement to win the argument...

Read more at: http://thefederalist.com/2016/11/18/campaign-finance-rules-make-free-speech-expensive-little-guy/

[Oceander]

Of course.  Campaign finance rules, like so many other supposedly good regulations, are simply designed intentionally or unintentionally to favor the well-connected and wealthy against the rest of us.  For example, Dodd Frank doesn't so much regulate large banks as much as it squashes little banks under a mountain of expensive compliance, which prevents them from effectively competing against the big banks.