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This CCP study examines proposed legislation in Congress (H.R. 1826 and S. 752), the “Fair Elections Now Act,” which aims to fund congressional races with taxpayer subsidies. The analysis uses data from states with similar taxpayer financing programs and academic studies to determine whether the proposed program can meet the stated goals in the legislation. It concludes that the program will be both prohibitively expensive and unlikely to meet its stated goals.
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 ...
In 2007, the state of New Jersey conducted its second experiment with taxpayer-funded political campaigns, often called “clean elections” by advocates of such programs
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