Public financing: how to fleece the taxpayer and simultaneously lawyer the rules to allow the creative use of privately collected resources, while being able to claim moral superiority to the dunce masses. Good practice for the fiscal raping you will proffer them for their 'own good' upon assuming power.
Also known colloquially as, "getting the naive chump taxpayer to fork over more money and get nothing in return, except the vague sense that politics is somehow 'more fair', while the card-trading has moved under the table."