Unfree speech: the folly of campaign finance reform

1. Introduction.

Part I. The cost of campaigns and the price of reform.

2. Money talks: a short history of campaign spending, regulation, and reform.

3. Faulty assumptions of campaign finance reform.

4. The folly of reform: consequences of campaign finance regulation.

5. Some problems with the solution of government financing.

Part II. Constitutional matters.

6. Money and speech.

7. Money and corruption.

8. Money and equality.

Part III. Real and imagined reform of campaign finance.

9. Unfree speech: the future of regulatory "reform".

10. Real equality, real corruption, real reform.