On today’s “This Week with George Stephanopoulos”, several Democratic presidential candidates said that we needed public (read: taxpayer) funding of federal elections. Usually this is proposed to save money. So would we really want this? ... Oh, yeah. Here’s why:
According to the Cornell University Law School, a report for Congress said that at least $2.4 billion was spent on federal elections in 2000.
If there are 100,000,000 voters,
and if all of them are eligible to run for federal office,
then each one would be entitled to up to $24 ($2,400,000,000 / 100,000,000) worth of TV time.
Now that’s not much for a TV ad. But that’s good. We won’t see them on TV but for a few seconds. (Try to figure the cost of TV advertising time here.) If we all can’t get our messages through to the rest of us in that time, too bad.
What’s the next problem to solve?
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