Tax-Financed Campaigns

Last week, D.C. Councilmember and Chair Pro Tempore Kenyan McDuffie took to the pages of The Washington Post to advocate for taxpayer funding for ...

Seattle’s new “democracy vouchers” program is the latest effort by supporters of greater campaign finance regulation to give government a bigger role in political ...

Imagine a special tax was levied on newspapers to fund vouchers that people could use to buy Fox News Channel subscriptions. Would that impact ...

This week, the Pacific Legal Foundation filed a lawsuit against the city of Seattle over its new “Democracy Vouchers” program. The system is a ...

Chairman Allen and members of the Committee on the Judiciary and Public Safety, on behalf of the Center for Competitive Politics (“the Center”), thank ...

When politicians face a problem, their first instinct is often to spend your tax dollars. Those who see our politics itself as a problem ...

States with taxpayer-funded campaigns have more candidates – but incumbents still dominate Alexandria, VA – Subsidizing candidate campaigns with tax dollars does not increase the ...

The Institute's tenth issue analysis examines the claim by proponents of taxpayer-funded political campaigns that such systems improve the political process by exposing incumbent ...

While proponents of so-called “matching funds” proposals tout these programs as a panacea for eliminating corruption and “fixing” perceived ills in government, the experiences ...

A debate about taxpayer-financing of political campaigns has sprung up in New Hampshire over the last few weeks. The discussion began when former Vice ...