Campaign Finance Reform

Full Disclosure Through the Tax Code

Individuals and corporations must disclose all political contributions — to which PAC, Super PAC, candidate, or organization, in what amount, and when. PACs and Super PACs must report all money received and all money allocated or spent. A change to the tax code explicitly makes political contributions exempt from any privacy protections.

The standard constitutional objection here is real: NAACP v. Alabama (1958) established that compelled disclosure of political association can violate First Amendment associational-privacy rights, particularly when disclosure could expose people to harassment for unpopular views. The distinction this policy relies on is the one already stated in the next policy point — political spending is a public act of influence over shared governance, not private political belief or membership, which is what NAACP protected. That distinction is real, but it's also exactly the argument opponents will contest in court, not a settled question.

Political Spending Is a Public Act

The platform protects medical privacy because medical decisions are personal. Political spending is explicitly a public act of influence over shared governance. It gets no privacy shield. You can spend whatever you want. You just have to own it — publicly, in real time. The same transparency infrastructure that tracks federal spending tracks political money. Failing to disclose, required as part of a tax filing made under penalty of perjury, is prosecutable under 26 U.S.C. § 7206(1) — the same felony statute that already criminalizes any willfully false statement on a required tax document, whether or not it affects the amount of tax owed. Each false or incomplete filing carries a fine of up to $100,000 ($500,000 for a corporation), up to 3 years imprisonment, or both. This is a more precise mechanism than 'tax fraud' in the conventional sense (willfully evading tax owed, 26 U.S.C. § 7201) — no tax needs to be evaded for this penalty to apply, only a false or missing disclosure on a document filed under penalty of perjury.