Don’t Let Hillary (or Rudy or Barack or …) Steal Your Donors

■ Donors already pay for the candidates through their taxes. From the presidential race down to local mayoral races, most elections are financed with large chunks of government matching funds. Taxpayers already are supporting these elections. Have we paid for a charity yet in the same manner? Not likely. Charity support is being cut nationwide from local, state and federal budgets. But even during the worst of financial crises, as after-school programs and food for the poor are being cut, matching funds for elections are safe because those who benefit from the programs, the elected officials, are the ones who vote on those budgets.