Traditional PACs are limited in the size of donations they may receive, but are allowed to donate money directly to candidates.
It is perhaps unsurprising that when people donate to friends' fundraising web pages, they are influenced by the size of donations made by others.
The effects of wealth would once more be magnified as the size of donations ballooned.
Another provision of the new law will require parties to announce the size of donations exceeding £5,000, as well as the name of the donor.
The law, which took effect on July 1 , 2001 requires all groups given tax-exempt status under Section 527 of the tax code to disclose their officers, address and other identifying information, along with donor names, size of donations and expenditures.
The brochure, in which the size of donations are named for more -- or less -- exclusive neighborhoods, starts at the Upper East Side as the top $500,000 tier and it ends with Greenwich Village for $10,000, perhaps suggesting Mr. DeLay's people have not surveyed the recent asking prices of town houses in the downtown neighborhood.
But some lawyers said the decision could have far broader significance because it could permit Republicans and Democrats to set up their own charitable groups to collect tax-deductible contributions for political purposes -- without limits on the size of donations or requirements to disclose contributors' identities.
But a year of headlines about skulduggery at the top of the Labour Party has added to the sense that the current set-up is irredeemably corrupt, and that something must be done.Sir Hayden's recommendations are to remove some of the money from politics by lowering the cap on election spending and limiting the size of donations, to £50,000 apiece.
It has repelled ordinary party members and stoked the cynicism of the wider electorate.Fixing the problem depends partly on a limit on the size of donations which is strict enough for ordinary voters to believe influence cannot be bought, but also on more transparency and caps on spending, especially during general elections when money is frittered away on idiotic poster campaigns.
He declined to name those lawmakers.Ney hasn't made any final decisions on what he would like to see in a new 527 proposal, but he suggested that limiting the size of donations that individual donors can give to the tax-exempt groups could play a role.
