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Oregon has a 50 dollar (or $100 for married filers) tax credit for direct campaign contributions to political candidates or certain classes of organizations (I
by ewoodrich 13y ago
Oregon has a 50 dollar (or $100 for married filers) tax credit for direct campaign contributions to political candidates or certain classes of organizations (I tend to just donate to a candidate though, for confidence/simplicity.)
It's definitely incentivized me to redirect this portion of my Oregon taxes to a candidate (on local/state/national level) I support.
EDIT: link with info.
http://www.oregonfamilycouncil.org/sites/default/files/understanding-the-political-tax-credit.pdf http://www.oregonfamilycouncil.org/sites/default/files/under...
- jjoonathan 13y agoThanks for linking, I hadn't heard of this program before. It's even better that this sort of plan has precedent inside the US! I'm fairly certain no other form of campaign finance can work. You can require lobbyists and politicians to jump through higher and higher hoops but at the end of the day politicians will still need to fund their campaigns, most people still won't want to spend their money on politics, and lobbyists will still be willing to do what is necessary to net a few 100-1000x ROI wins for their employers. The hoops will be jumped and the asymmetric bribery will continue until regular people get in on the game, and the only way to get regular people in on the game is to pay them to do so since, unlike their wealthier counterparts, they can't count on the occasional 100-1000x ROI win to incentivize their donations.