or else complete anonymity.
Nor\ person, including corporate persons, shall be allowed to mix open contributions and anonymous contributions to organizations classified as 501(c)(3) or 501(c)(4).
Either all such contributions shall be opened and the donor identified, or all such contributions shall be anonymous with the donor receiving no recognition of any kind.
Think about it. The likes of the Koch brothers want to be praised for their contributions to arts organizations, but if they want that recognition all their donations to 501(c)(4)s would also have to be public.
Remember, most of these Tea Party and similar (c)(4)s are not filing in order for contributions to them to be tax deductible - they are not - nor are most of them for profit organizations. There is NO tax issue involved. The sole purpose is to allow massive amounts of money to be used to influence politics through unidentified contributions.
While the Supreme Court has said that money is speech in Buckley v Valeo (although i have seen nothing in the jurisprudence that means $1 = 1 vote), that opinion was written in the context of required disclosure of the contribution.
The issue is not just the amount of money some can spend. It is they can do so with no accountability.
Just a thought written from a head cold on a Friday night at the end of a really silly week in politics.