Insanity #24 – Tax-payer funded parties

Political parties, that is. Since 1976, taxpayers have subsidized a portion of the cost of political conventions, with the money derived from the Presidential Election Campaign Fund. In 2008, the Republican and Democrat conventions received a total of $33.6 million for grants to hold their political conventions (this is in addition to appropriations they received for security costs). These taxpayer funds covered approximately 20% of the cost of the conventions with the remainder coming from private sources.

It’s time to stop the insanity!

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