Tax-Financed Campaigns

Maine State Senator Ed Youngblood is a rare breed of Republican: one who supports tax-financed campaign programs. Because of that fact, he gets a ...

Recent years have witnessed a shrinking of the legal rationale for restricting the ability of independent groups to spend funds urging voters to support ...

Every now and then we come across a truly bizarre and insulting argument from those who wish to expand government control over the political ...

Below is a transcript of Bradley A. Smith’s remarks on tax-financed campaigns at the AmericanForum: How we finance our political campaigns debate: There’s no real evidence that ...

Maine’s tax-financed campaign program is struggling, according to an article by the Bangor Daily News’ Mario Moretto. He writes, “[t]he steady, precipitous decline in ...

Barnard College political science professor Michael G. Miller takes issue with my recent op-ed on Arizona’s Citizens Clean Elections Program, in which I argue ...

Proponents of tax-financed campaigns, sometimes euphemistically referred to as “clean elections” or “fair elections,” have spent years arguing that these programs will lead to ...

Taxpayer-financed campaign programs seek to replace private, voluntary contributions from citizens to the candidates of their choice with government grants of taxpayer dollars to candidates ...

As New York State legislators consider implementing a taxpayer-financed campaign scheme modeled after New York City’s program, a complaint filed against the New York ...

I show that the public funding of elections produces a large decrease in the financial and electoral advantage of incumbents. Despite these effects on electoral ...