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Mass society requires the expenditure of money from the humblest hand bill to leaflets to political ads run during prime time on tv, radio and other mass media to putting up billboards, putting up yard signs or in the modern internet age putting up a website all of that costs money. And, you know, the days when you could stand on a soap box in the Boston Common and speak politically to get people to accept your ideas or to vote for you as a candidate are long gone and, frankly, even then you want to be effective, it costs money and, again, those who say, well, the framers never imagined that the First Amendment would protect money spent on political speech, political activity, well, excuse me, but one of the greatest works in america that helped spur our revolution, Thomas Paynes common sense it cost money to write it, pu ....