Public money going to the Fair Taxes for All groups subsidizes their advocacy. Money is fungible. Taxpayer money that goes to a group for one purpose frees funds for advocacy, including advocacy against tax cuts.
American democratic processes should be constitutional, responsive, and neutral. Judged by those standards, public subsidies for anti-tax cut advocacy distort democratic processes in two ways: First, they bias the political process toward the recipients of subsidies. Second, they induce demands on government that would not exist without the subsidies.
Americans need better disclosure of public subsidies for political advocacy, and Congress should seek effective ways to prevent public money from being used to support political causes of any kind.
