[howardr]

It's an equality vs liberty issue. Either my free speech is violated because you have more money to voice your side, or my speech is violated because the government isn't letting me express my views by buying an advertisement. My point is that there is a tradeoff. Surrounding any different issue you have different people on different sides of the scale. i.e. you don't like the person buying the advertisement so it is undemocratic OR I am very passionate about the issue but the government won't let me spend money to advocate my position.