Arguments against state funding

♤ Through state funding of elections the tax payers are forced to support even those political parties or candidates, whose view they do not subscribe to.

♤ State funding encourages status quo that keeps the established party or candidate in power and makes it difficult for the new parties.

♤ State funding increases the distance between political leaders and ordinary citizens as the parties do not depend on the citizens for mobilization of party fund.

♤ Political parties tend to become organs of the state, rather than being parts of the civil society