Arguments against State Funding

· India collects just about 16% of GDP as tax and state expenditure on many essential primary healthcare and public health engineering is pitifully small.

· Public resources have to be channelled towards and not diverted from such essential services, and that, too, to finance something that already gets abundantly financed.

·State funding of elections will not prevent parties from soliciting and getting undisclosed supplementary private funding, with associated implications.

Diverting money for election funding would also open up another racket -- parties would  contest merelyto win state funding. State funding is not the solution to opaque funding of politics in India.

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