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Recent annual reports, audited financial statements, and IRS Form 990s
This CCP report that examines the number of lobbyist registrations in Arizona and Maine, the two states with the longest running public financing programs. Advocates for taxpayer financed campaigns often argue that their programs remove the threat of special interest influence, and presumably the number of lobbyists, but this research shows no relationship between taxpayer financed campaigns and the number of registered lobbyists.
Critics of taxpayer-funded political campaigns frequently justify their opposition in part on the idea that such programs increase government spending, add to the total tax burden on citizens, ...
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 ...
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