Tax-Financed Campaigns

On June 27, 2011, The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Arizona Free Enterprise Club’s Freedom Club PAC v. Bennett that a portion of Arizona’s tax-financed ...

Advocates of taxpayer-funded political campaigns, often called “clean elections” or “public financing” by their proponents, claim that these systems provide the ability for an increased number of diverse, non-traditional ...

Proponents of taxpayer-financed political campaigns, often called “clean elections” by their supporters, assert that these programs will produce more diverse legislative bodies by allowing a greater number of ...

Beginning with the 2000 election cycle, Arizona and Maine instituted taxpayer-funded political campaign programs for state legislative races. Sometimes called “clean elections” by their supporters, these programs seek to ...

On Thursday, July 11, the D.C. City Council Committee on Government Operations held a public roundtable on the feasibility of implementing taxpayer-funded campaigns for ...

There are a number of issues highlighted in the statement: (I) recent corruption scandals in Washington D.C. would be unaffected by the existence of ...

CCP President David Keating testified yesterday before members of the New York State Senate on public financing of elections with a warning that emulating ...

While proponents of so-called “clean elections” proposals tout the programs as a panacea for eliminating corruption and “fixing government,” the experience of three states ...

The Campaign Finance Institute has released a study on implementing taxpayer financed political welfare for politicians in the Empire State.  Claiming that this would cost ...

The New York Times has been in a dither lately over the efforts of Jonathan Soros (grandson of multi-billionaire George) to spend exorbitant amounts ...