What about government funding for political ad campaigns?
April 19, 2018 3:28 PM   Subscribe

What if all final political contenders receive no money or resources for ad's. Rather they each get a specific number of radio ads, tv ads, mailers, etc.

* What are the limitations to this concept? How could it be regulated and enforced?
* Why has this idea not been mentioned in the mainstream?
* And most importantly, do other countries have something similar setup? How is it working for them?

I guess in the United States it comes down to the first amendment rights, and legally not being able to prevent a campaign from spending money. Thus, what do other developed countries do and what works or doesn't work

(Please lets not turn this into a chatfilter thread!)
posted by Mr. Papagiorgio to Law & Government

This post was deleted for the following reason: Hey, this kind of hypothetical is chatfilter by definition, sorry. -- restless_nomad

 
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