To: Falcon28
What's with "loaning" money to their own campaign?
Some kind of tax dodge?
2 posted on
05/04/2010 9:14:25 PM PDT by
Willie Green
("You can observe a lot just by watching.")
To: Willie Green
No tax dodge. If you loan your campaign money, and win, you can repay yourself from the lobbyist / interest group donations that incumbency attracts. Outright donations cannot be repaid. The really rich self-funded candidates self-donate rather than self-lend in order to be able to hold themselves out as truly unaffected by special interest money.
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