Political advocate: Campaigns for elective office should be subsidized with public funds  One reason is that this would allow politicians to devote less time to fund-raising, thus giving campaigning incumbents more time to serve the public  A second reason is that such subsidies would make it possible to set caps on individual campaign contributions, thereby reducing the likelihood that elected officials will be working for the benefit not of the public but of individual large contributors
Critic: This argument is problematic: the more the caps constrain contributions, the more time candidates have to spend finding more small contributors
of the two projected results cited in support of the proposal made, one works against the other