February 2, 2013
Dear Members of the Securities and Exchange Commission:
It's long past time to end secret political spending by corporations.
So I strongly support the SEC issuing a rule in the near future that would require publicly traded corporations to publicly disclose all their spending on political activities.
Both shareholders and the public deserve to know how much a given corporation spends on politics (directly and through intermediaries), and which candidates are being promoted or attacked.
Corporations can hide while any individual contribution is subject to substantial personal data. Above all there should never be an appearance that this government of the people, for the people can be diverted to the will of the wealthy and corporations.
There are still centuries of the legacy of corporate manipulation of the foreign policies of this country, in the substantial distrust all over the world. The new "citizen corporations" must be, at least, transparent.
Thank you for considering my comment.
Sincerely,
Carlos Quiroga-Lassepas