As campaign contributions become exceedingly important, different types of contributions arise along with limits on amounts for most of them. Soft money is one of the types of campaign contributions. Soft money are political contributions earmarked for party-building expenses at the grassroots level or for generic party advertising. A benefit of this method is that soft money is donated to political parties, rather directly to candidates which allows the donor to give as much money as they want to any political party. While this may a benefit, it also is a flaw because the government cannot regulate amounts. This has caused issues and changing the soft money is hotly debated.
Another controversial issue in today is whether or not to raise limits on individual contributions in campaigns. The idea of raising the limits causes concern because it makes it more difficult to track where the contributions are coming from. Also this brings the legitimacy of the so-called "Super PAC's" into question. Supporters of the raise on limits argue that the raise would allow for candidates to gain more funding and tackle bigger issues in their campaigns.
Citizens United strongly supports the raise of individual campaign contributions as it allows them to fund more campaign that they support. But all while not revealing their identity, so they can fund campaigns by
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