Tax-Financed Campaigns

In the wake of the Supreme Court’s 5-4 decision in Arizona Free Enterprise v. Bennett, this Nebraska Law Review article by Hofstra University Law ...

We often point out that while supporters of tax-financed campaigns portray these programs as a way to fundamentally transform the make-up and behavior of ...

Advocates of taxpayer-funded political campaigns frequently argue that these systems improve government by increasing political participation and voter turnout. Common Cause, an organization that supports taxpayer-funded campaigns, claims that ...

No matter how many times we set the record straight, it seems we just can’t rid the world of myths surrounding tax-financed campaigns (for ...

On Friday, The New York Times Editorial Board resumed its delusional calls for a statewide taxpayer-financed campaign program, using long-discredited arguments to urge the Governor ...

Polls can be a valuable tool for determining public opinion, but in the hands of special interests, they can also be manipulated to create ...

Critics of taxpayer-financed political campaigns frequently argue that such programs increase government spending and reduce available public dollars for spending on other priorities. Advocates often respond that taxpayer funding ...

The implementation and expansion of public funding programs around the U.S. over the past decade raised the possibility of major changes in the financing of ...

There are a number of reasons that arguments for tax financing of political campaigns tend to fail. Sometimes they’re based on demonstrably false claims ...

We have often commented on the lack of any connection between campaign finance “reformers” apparent definition of success and any connection to actually having ...