pudge's Journal: Spouses Can't Be Employees

I have no idea what problem this is meant to solve, and it strikes me as unconstitutionally discriminatory, to boot.

Sad.

[Kymermosst]

Now a spouse's choice is either to not work on the campaign or work for free. But the kids can get paid.

One example they gave was the "donations commission" thing... where the spouse takes x% of the donations he/she pulls in as a commission. But that's a common practice. Their concern is that since it goes to the spouse, it effectively goes to the candidate.

It's a stupid concern, and it's not even a factor in states that don't have community property laws, because one could easily argue that the spouse h

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[stoolpigeon]

In any case, it's stupid, and probably easily worked around.
 
That's the key. An honest candidate would pay their spouse a fair wage. A crooked candidate will have no trouble circumventing this. They've just created another law that could do harm and is highly unlikely to do good.