One of Nancy Pelosi’s first projects as the new speaker of the House will be passing a government overhaul of campaign finance rules. One of the new bills reportedly would allocate a pool of taxpayer money to match small-dollar donations 6-to-1, as a way of encouraging “grass-roots campaigning.”
That bill, fortunately, wouldn’t pass the Senate, writes David Harsanyi. But creating government-financed campaigns—empowering the state to allocate money to preferred donors and dissuading non-preferred donors—has been something of a hobbyhorse in progressive circles. Setting aside the many constitutional concerns, the recent abuses by the IRS when tasked with regulating political speech demonstrate just how easy it is for bureaucrats to manipulate rules meant to govern speech. These are rules that shouldn’t exist, period.
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