RE: A college friend runs a PAC, and it's just devious as hell

I always had my suspicions that this is how PACs are but I didn't realize that they would be so brazen about it. Charities are almost always the same way too.

PACs are one of the biggest problems in USA politics. There's so much money siphoned into campaigns via them and nobody outside of a few outlier politicians will ever so much as even address them because their own campaigns benefit from them as well. Despite my feelings about wanting a totally open market in all things, I wouldn't be mad if they were made illegal... but they never will be because the politicians themselves benefit directly from them.

Your friend is not a piece of shit for doing this though. he is merely taking advantage of a dumb system in order to benefit himself. I would much rather he be taking the money than giving it to some asshole politician.