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This has been a very long discussion to make a point that is embarrassingly simple: The LSC subsidy neither prevents anyone from speaking nor coerces anyone to change speech, and is indistinguishable in all relevant respects from the subsidy upheld in Rust v.
The court upheld contribution limits on the reasoning that contributing money to someone else is not an act of speech.
This rule is upheld even when a number is specified: a six-foot pole, a tenpenny stamp, a twenty-mile stretch . Yet today this rule is being broken more and more often, and the rot certainly started in America with such terms as materials handling and greetings cards . Nowdays my favorite scientific magazine talks only of drugs firms and chemicals manufacturers , though such expressions must surely grate on the ears of anyone who still has a little feeling for the English language.
The land of the free has upheld the finest democratic traditions."
That was exactly the reasoning endorsed by the Supreme Court in 1988, when it upheld the right of Sharp Electronics to terminate the dealership of a chronic discounter.