It was never decided that “money is speech”; that’s just the kind of oversimplification that people use to rile you up. What was decided was that _spending_ mon

It was never decided that “money is speech”; that’s just the kind of oversimplification that people use to rile you up. What was decided was that _spending_ money _can_ be speech. For example, if you spend money on a hot dog then that probably wasn’t an act of speech covered by the first amendment, but if you spend it on a television commercial then it probably was.