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, powers' further gravitating to the wealthiest bidders and reducing the populist character of our democratic republic.

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 sooner lead to our transformation from democracy to fascism.

Purchase of electronic broadcasting services should not be a tax deductible item. 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.]

This is a radical proposal. But increasing the effective prices paid for broadcasting commercial interruptions to better retain our democracy and prevent fascism, is a good bargain.

Respectfully, Supposn

That seems like a good way to ensure that only corporate-funded political messages will be broadcast.

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hmmm,

I may agree with this, but would the addition of import certificates improve your proposal?

Gregorio, who is to determine what's a political opinion, rather than what's generally described as an “institutional” advertisement.?

It's not particularly unusual for messages ostensibly to promote enterprises' reputations, (i.e. institutional commercials) to actually be political commercials. Corporate boards of directors may have political opinions but when their broadcasted political opinions serve as tax deductible expenditure items, they've successfully committed crimes.

Respectfully, Supposn

Bigt2k4, it's difficult for me to argue in favor of the Import Certificate policy because those who oppose it believe that I should be able to cite credible economists' statements that I contend are rare, (if they actually ever did occur). Respectfully, Supposn