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Show tmrn I I DESERET NEWS, FRIDAY, APRIL 20, 1973 A 1 3 2E Funding plan SedeSopm g Our Warehouse u for campaigns battles apathy By ARNOLD B. SAWISLAK WASHINGTON (UPI) -The first step toward public financing of political campaigns may be turning into an embarrassing stumble. Instead, they say, the treasReformers have argued for and IRS botched the job election for ury that paying years of the campaigns with public funds by making no mention was essential to eliminate the checkoff on the basic tax re1040 and 1040A) potentially coruptive influ- turns (forms ence of big money contribu- and requiring taxpayers to tions. As television and jet fill out a separate form called plane campaigning forced 4875 to take part in the the costs up, argument gamed supporters. Furthermore, they saidl the After several starts and tax collectors put on only the authorized feeblest campaign to publistops, Congress the treasury to start collect- cize the checkoff and encouring a fund this year that age taxpayers to use it. could be used to pay 1976 One group supporting the Presidential campaign costs. checkoff, Common Cause, was The program is entirely vo- so disturbed by the first retaxpayer is turns that it filed a federal luntary: each given the choice of ear- court suit seeking to require marking a dol'ar of his taxes IRS to put the checkoff on the to the campaign fund or of basic tax form next year and letting it go into the general to promote it more. treasury as before. The Twentieth Century . Those who choose' to allo- Fund reported recently that cate the dollar are given the one survey of voter attitutdes further choice of specifying last December found only 36 to the candi- percent of 1,481 persons queswhere it goes date of a particular political tioned had any knoKledge of party or to a general cam- the checkoff. paign fund for distribution After the checkoff was among all major and minor explained, first as a package party candidates. and then provision by proviThe potential of such a sion, 53 percent of those surscheme was enormous: 77 veyed said they favored the million Americans file indiv- checkoff idea, 33 percent said idual income tax returns each they were opposed and 14 year; if everyone participated percent expressed no in the campaign fund check- opinion, Twentieth Century off in the next four years, said. something in excess of $300 As to how many would acmillion would be available for use the checkoff, 45.2 tually the 1976 campaign. percent of the respondents But it appears that no such said they were likely to check off one dollar, 42 percent thing is happening. 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