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Take Ads off Taxpayer Dime
If you left your house, watched tv, listened to the radio, or read the newspaper in the months prior to the last election, you probably saw a political ad that you paid for. No, I'm not just referring to donors to the Obama or McCain campaigns, but involuntary campaign "donations" that were taken in the form of taxes. How can this happen?
As I explained recently in the pages of the Albuquerque Journal, taxpayers funded the "yes" campaigns on behalf of the RailRunner and other statewide bond measures that increased property taxes statewide in an extremely tough economic time. This represents an extremely unfair advantage over grassroots and community groups like the Rio Grande Foundation that are concerned with out-of-control taxes and spending.
While government agencies looking for more money will always have the advantage of having many employees that get their paychecks from said agency, cutting off advertising money would at least create a fair election in which taxpayers' own money are not used against them.
As I explained recently in the pages of the Albuquerque Journal, taxpayers funded the "yes" campaigns on behalf of the RailRunner and other statewide bond measures that increased property taxes statewide in an extremely tough economic time. This represents an extremely unfair advantage over grassroots and community groups like the Rio Grande Foundation that are concerned with out-of-control taxes and spending.
While government agencies looking for more money will always have the advantage of having many employees that get their paychecks from said agency, cutting off advertising money would at least create a fair election in which taxpayers' own money are not used against them.
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Permalink Reply by Kenny on -
Its unacceptable when the government must sell its own desired proposal to the people with the peoples own dime.
If it was worth doing the people should have voted to do it prior to a dime of the people's money being spent on selling it.
That is after all why we elect legislators in the first place to decide how to spend money.
Not spend OUR money to convene us to go along with a plan that THEY decided to go with but does not already have the necessary support.
This represents a failure in our states Democratic process, as the ones in control have taken to securing that control for their agenda at the entire populations expensive.
This is a very dangerous development as it can lead to dictatorship/oligarchy by means of enabling the "group"(party) in control the means necessary permanently to crush their opposition by means of simple monopoly on power thou commutations advantage.
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