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Gaming the system : Comments
By Max Atkinson, published 9/3/2016One lesson from this history is that the public does not regard political parties as charities and contributes only a minor portion of the funds. The problem arises from big-money donors.
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Of course there's an elementary reason to secretly donate large sums!
Patently purchased influence and corrupt outcomes?
And then we wonder why it's virtually impossible to decarb our economy, seriously reform the tax system, or provide real freedom of information?
For mine, election funding should be provided by the taxpayer and or, completely transparent crowd funding, with the public broadcaster supplying all the required air time for registered parties to air their ideas and policy objectives/accountability, alway providing it was done town hall style, with members of the public able to ask politely put pertinent questions. Q+A style?
Like, where is the funding coming from for that; or is that part of the core functions of that tier of government; and why the delay, given a decade of delay doubles the capital outlay imperatives of infrastructure and so on?
And a perfectly reasonable condition for requiring the public to provide all election funding?
Rhrosty.