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Originally Posted by Mat  Not if budgets are capped |
Good point.
How are you going to guarantee all candidates reach the cap? Set it really low or have the public finance it?
Being a fiscal conservative, I hate the idea of the public financing any more than they already finance.
But, if the public financed it and you managed to get rid of all other fund raising I might go with it.
Getting rid of direct fund raising might be easy, but indirect would be hard. If I run/pay for an ad supporting a candidate, does that count as fundraising? Restricting this type of activity is, at the least, treading in the penumbras of shadows of free speech. I would argue it is closer to simply being illegal to restrict this type of speech.
