SOFT MONEY

Soft money refers to money used to advance a particular political campaign in such a manner as to skirt the legal limits on how much money individuals or organizations are allowed to contribute to political campaigns (termed hard money). Popular soft money techniques include paying for thinly veiled advertising that does not name a specific candidate by name, but focuses so narrowly on particular issues tied to a given campaign that it is obvious which contest the advertisement is targeted at and which candidate the ad supports.

Soft money contributions were generally made illegal in the United States in 2002 with passage of the McCain-Feingold Campaign Finance Reform Act, but opponents of the bill managed to create a number of loopholes through amendments. Previously, President George W. Bush had indicated absolute opposition to the bill, but as it was passed in the midst of the corporate scandals of 2002, a public relations nightmare for the Republican Party, and in particular at a time when allegations of impropriety were being levied against Vice President Dick Cheney for his dealings with Enron, Bush quietly signed it.

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Representative Democracy versus Corporate Democracy: How Soft Money Erodes the Principle of "One Person, One Vote" - 1988 article by Russell D. Feingold, co-sponsor of the 2002 law

In academics, "soft money" can refer to funding through individual research grants, rather than a salary via an academic institution.

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Modern Translation: SOFT MONEY

Language		Translations for "SOFT MONEY"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Arabic		‏العملة الضعيفة. (various references)

Bulgarian		лесни пари. (various references)

Danish		sedler og skillemønt (bank notes, bills, fiduciary currency, fiduciary money, flat money, inconvertible money, paper currency, paper money), sedler og mønt (bank notes, bills, fiduciary currency, fiduciary money, flat money, inconvertible money, paper currency, paper money), pengeseddel (bank note, banknote, bank-note), papirpenge (bank notes, bills, fiduciary currency, fiduciary money, flat money, inconvertible money, paper currency, paper money). (various references)

Dutch		papiergeld (bank notes, bills, fiduciary currency, fiduciary money, flat money, inconvertible money, paper currency, paper money), fiduciair geld (bank notes, bills, fiduciary currency, fiduciary money, flat money, inconvertible money, paper currency, paper money), chartaal geld (bank notes, bills, fiduciary currency, fiduciary money, flat money, inconvertible money, notes and coins, paper currency, paper money), bankbiljetten (bank notes, bills, fiduciary currency, fiduciary money, flat money, inconvertible money, paper currency, paper money). (various references)

Finnish		seteliraha (paper money), seteli (bill, note), paperiraha (paper currency, paper money). (various references)

French		papier-monnaie, papier monnaie, monnaie fiduciaire, billets de banque, argent facile � obtenir. (various references)

German		Papierwährung (bank notes, bills, fiduciary currency, fiduciary money, flat money, inconvertible money, paper currency, paper money), Papiergeld (banknotes, rag money), Notenumlauf (bank notes, bills, fiduciary currency, fiduciary money, flat money, inconvertible money, note circulation, note issue, notes in issue, paper currency, paper money), fiduziarisches Geld (bank notes, bills, fiduciary currency, fiduciary money, flat money, inconvertible money, paper currency, paper money), Bargeld (cash, hardcash, ready cash), Banknoten (banknotes). (various references)

Greek		πιστωτικό χρήμα (bank notes, bills, fiduciary currency, fiduciary money, flat money, inconvertible money, paper currency, paper money), παραστατικό χρήμα (bank notes, bills, fiduciary currency, fiduciary money, flat money, inconvertible money, notes and coins, paper currency, paper money), χρήμα ευχερώς υποκείμενο σε μεταβολές της αγοραστικής του δύναμης (bank notes, bills, fiduciary currency, fiduciary money, flat money, inconvertible money, paper currency, paper money), χαρτονόμισμα (bank note, banknote, bill, paper money), ακάλυπτο χρήμα (bank notes, bills, fiduciary currency, fiduciary money, flat money, inconvertible money, paper currency, paper money). (various references)

Hungarian		papírpénz (fiat money, folding money, money, paper money), bankjegy (bank note, bill, folding money, money, note). (various references)

Italian		moneta fiduciaria (bank notes, bills, fiduciary currency, fiduciary money, flat money, inconvertible money, notes and coins, paper currency, paper money), carta moneta (paper money, papermoney, rag money). (various references)

Pig Latin		oftsay oneymay

Portuguese		papel moeda (bank paper, currency, money, paper), nota de banco (banknote, bank-note, greenback, oblong, paper, rag), moeda fiduciária (bank notes, bills, fiduciary currency, fiduciary money, flat money, inconvertible money, notes and coins, paper currency, paper money). (various references)

Romanian		bilete de bancã. (various references)

Russian		бумажные деньги (greenbacks, long greens, paper money, papercurrency). (various references)

Swedish		sedlar (bills, currency, folding money, paper). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Anagrams: SOFT MONEY

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "e-f-m-n-o-o-s-t-y"
	-2 letters: eftsoon, etymons, festoon, foments, footmen, moonset, myosote.
	-3 letters: etymon, foment, footsy, moneys, montes, ostomy, snooty, soften, stoney, toyons.
	-4 letters: fonts, foots, footy, meson, money, monos, monte, moons, moony, moose, moots, mosey, moste, motes, motey, nomes, nomos, noose, nosey, notes, often, omens, onset, seton, smote, snoot, softy, sooey, sooty, steno, stone, stony, tomes, tones.
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Domain	Definition
Finance	Unregulated money that goes to political parties. Source: European Union. (references)
	Money which owes its acceptability to public trust; the intrinsic value of such money, e. g. bank notes, is usually nil, or very much lower than the normal value ; coins or notes which are not worth much as a paper or metal, but are said by the government to have a value. Source: European Union. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
Books	Soft Money Hard Law: A Guide to the New Campaign Finance Law (reference) Soft money in the states : a survey of contributions in the 1992 elections (reference) Soft Money, Hard Drugs (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Speaker	Phrase(s)
Rush Limbaugh	Soft money was invented by creative souls as a way around the current campaign finance structure.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

SOFT MONEY

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