Clipping coupons for democracy: An egalitarian/public choice defense of campaign finance vouchers

California Law Review

Volumn 84, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 1-3

  Hasen, Richard L ^a  

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EID: 0043016538     PISSN: 00081221     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3480902     Document Type: Review

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1. Such disgust has become as inevitable as death and taxes. Apparently it was Benjamin Franklin who, in 1789, first commented upon their inevitability. "Our Constitution is in actual operation; everything appears to promise that it will last; but in this world nothing is certain but death and taxes." JOHN BARTLETT, FAMILIAR QUOTATIONS 348 (Emily Morison Beck ed., 15th ed. 1980).
2. Federal Election Campaign Act Amendments of 1974, Pub. L. No. 93-443, 88 Stat. 1263 [hereinafter FECA Amendments].
3. University of Michigan Center for Political Studies, American National Election Studies 1952-1990, Table 4.13 (unpublished data, on file with author). The actual figure is 76%. Id.
4. Id. The 1964 figure of 29% rose in each subsequent National Election Survey, with the exception of the 1982 and 1984 surveys. Id.
5. Far from distancing themselves from gridlock, some Republicans recently have embraced it. See Gloria Borger, Giving the Voters a False Choice, U.S. NEWS & WORLD REP., Oct. 24, 1994, at 63 ("So now comes a new political treatise, touted by Republicans everywhere. It is the Good Gridlock Theory of Government, and it is based on an appealing, common-sense calculation: Stopping bad legislation is a good idea.").