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To: Tadsamillionaire who wrote (22908)	2/6/2002 12:38:34 PM
From: Tadsamillionaire	Respond to of 59480

Arizona Highway Robbery Politicians make a grab for political cash. Wednesday, February 6, 2002 12:01 a.m. EST PHOENIX--Would you like it if every time you paid a parking ticket, 10% of the fine went directly to the political campaign of someone you planned to vote against? That's happening in Arizona. And whether the law to fund election campaigns is allowed to stand may determine if other states try a similar way of paying politicians not just to hold office, but to also run for it. Thomas Jefferson attacked the idea of forcing Americans to contribute to political causes they disagreed with. He called it "sinful and tyrannical." Most Americans still believe it violates any basic sense of fairness. That's why the advocates of the public financing initiative Arizona voters narrowly approved in 1998 went to great lengths to say their subsidies to politicians would be paid for out of voluntary donations to a state fund that would in turn dole out the money to qualified candidates, who collect only very small private donations. opinionjournal.com