Then it's a lazy hack. Every law has a message, and apparently the message of this one is "It is perfectly okay to support a candidate as much as possible, so l

Then it's a lazy hack. Every law has a message, and apparently the message of this one is "It is perfectly okay to support a candidate as much as possible, so long as you use the second through nth most liquid medium, and not the very most liquid medium." There are just so many negative externalities, here. Imagine a lawyer who can do something society thinks is worth $500 per hour. By lunchtime, he's earned enough money to make the maximum donation to Obama; thereafter, his next best bet is to do the kind of volunteer work worth about $10 an hour. He's running at 2% efficiency so we can feel like our political system is less corrupt!