Saturday, March 6, 2010

Financing a Political Party

Some might ask where a political party gets its funds and for what purposes if not to give to candidates. First of all, a party can solicit funds from voters. Secondly, a party could elect to "tax" its candidates' fund raising. After all, aren't politicians good at taxing?
As to a party's need for funds, it can use those for such things as research and policy development but, most importantly, it cannot use them to fund any candidate's campaign. As noted earlier, that would be tantamount to a transfer between states or districts and that is contrary to my "six words."

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