Increase effective prices for broadcasting commercial time.
Many of us are concerned about the huge and growing expenditures for seeking elected offices. I suppose purchasing electronic broadcasting time or space on internet screens is the most expensive single items for national and state-wide campaigns, because that's the most advantageous use of campaign dollars.
Political influence is being auctioned and the powers' gravitating to the wealthiest bidders.
A message may not mention the names of political candidates, parties, drafts of laws or regulations proposed or passed by our governments' legislators, but still be an effective political message. Government cannot and should not attempt determining messages' extents of political purposes.
I doubt if legal and effective federal regulation of political financing could be drafted, but if we succeeded to enact such effective USA laws, they'd surly also lead to our transformation from democracy to fascism.
Purchase of electronic broadcasting services should not be allowed for tax reduction purposes. If the political services cannot be effectively regulated, we should not enable those expenses to be commingled with commercial expenses and in effect be government subsidized.
[Tax deductions currently allowed for creation broadcasting content, (e.g. scripts, art, performances, etc.) would continue to be allowed. There's legal precedent for requiring that a category of expense, (such as purchase of broadcasting services), be legally identified and isolated from all other billing expenses.]
Increasing the effective prices paid for broadcasting commercial times to better retain our democracy and prevent fascism, is a good bargain.
Respectfully, Supposn
Many of us are concerned about the huge and growing expenditures for seeking elected offices. I suppose purchasing electronic broadcasting time or space on internet screens is the most expensive single items for national and state-wide campaigns, because that's the most advantageous use of campaign dollars.
Political influence is being auctioned and the powers' gravitating to the wealthiest bidders.
A message may not mention the names of political candidates, parties, drafts of laws or regulations proposed or passed by our governments' legislators, but still be an effective political message. Government cannot and should not attempt determining messages' extents of political purposes.
I doubt if legal and effective federal regulation of political financing could be drafted, but if we succeeded to enact such effective USA laws, they'd surly also lead to our transformation from democracy to fascism.
Purchase of electronic broadcasting services should not be allowed for tax reduction purposes. If the political services cannot be effectively regulated, we should not enable those expenses to be commingled with commercial expenses and in effect be government subsidized.
[Tax deductions currently allowed for creation broadcasting content, (e.g. scripts, art, performances, etc.) would continue to be allowed. There's legal precedent for requiring that a category of expense, (such as purchase of broadcasting services), be legally identified and isolated from all other billing expenses.]
Increasing the effective prices paid for broadcasting commercial times to better retain our democracy and prevent fascism, is a good bargain.
Respectfully, Supposn
