Comments on: Public Funding For Political Sins http://www.chrispalmer.org/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&feed=Comments+on+Articles+%28RSS2%29&seed=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.chrispalmer.org%2F2007%2F12%2F02%2Fpublic-funding-for-political-sins%2F%23comment-&seed_title=Public+Funding+For+Political+Sins A Strong Conservative Voice Sat, 10 Sep 2011 17:13:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Florian Bay http://www.chrispalmer.org/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&feed=Comments+on+Articles+%28RSS2%29&seed=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.chrispalmer.org%2F2007%2F12%2F02%2Fpublic-funding-for-political-sins%2F%23comment-37&seed_title=Public+Funding+For+Political+Sins/comment-page-1/#comment-37 Florian Bay Thu, 13 Dec 2007 13:29:08 +0000 http://www.chrispalmer.org/2007/12/02/public-funding-for-political-sins/#comment-37 Political parties recieves public founding in France, yet a simple look at Chirac's carrer go on to tell a long way about how 'clean' he was with money. The only advantage I can see for public founding is the fact that 'small' parties recieves some money from the government, but this is more than negated by the fact that the main parties would recieves millions of pounds for nothing. Political parties recieves public founding in France, yet a simple look at Chirac’s carrer go on to tell a long way about how ‘clean’ he was with money. The only advantage I can see for public founding is the fact that ‘small’ parties recieves some money from the government, but this is more than negated by the fact that the main parties would recieves millions of pounds for nothing.

]]> By: James Barlow http://www.chrispalmer.org/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&feed=Comments+on+Articles+%28RSS2%29&seed=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.chrispalmer.org%2F2007%2F12%2F02%2Fpublic-funding-for-political-sins%2F%23comment-35&seed_title=Public+Funding+For+Political+Sins/comment-page-1/#comment-35 James Barlow Sat, 08 Dec 2007 17:56:49 +0000 http://www.chrispalmer.org/2007/12/02/public-funding-for-political-sins/#comment-35 Damn right - politics is a vocation, not a career. When discussing political funding, I often refer people to the book Freakonomics published a few years ago, in which it was well demonstrated that you can't buy votes - money flows to successful parties, but it doesn't lead to victory at the ballot box. Damn right – politics is a vocation, not a career.

When discussing political funding, I often refer people to the book Freakonomics published a few years ago, in which it was well demonstrated that you can’t buy votes – money flows to successful parties, but it doesn’t lead to victory at the ballot box.

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