The case against taxpayer financing: a view from Massachusetts / Thomas M. Finneran -- Three lessons from Arizona / Chip Mellor -- Elections in Arizona, clean and unclean / Robert J. Franciosi -- Does cleanliness lead to competitiveness? the failure of Maine's experiment / Patrick Basham and Martin Zelder -- Our democracy, our airwaves / Paul Taylor -- Why subsidize the soapbox? the McCain free airtime proposal and the future of broadcasting / John Samples and Adam Thierer -- The Constitutional case against 'free' airtime / Laurence H. Winter -- Reform without reason? the scientific method and campaign finance / Jeffrey Milyo and David Primo -- The failure of taxpayer financing of presidential campaigns / John Samples -- Are matching funds only 'for losers'? a post-2004 vision for a renewed public funding system / Michael J. Malbin -- Taxpayer financing in comparative perspective / Patrick Basham.