If it is over 1% = state funding, get read for the USA to be funding some very dodgy parties indeed - who will all get the same level of support as the big parties. Is the Neo-nazi anti Jew / Muslim Party allowed the funding? Where does free speech end in relation to campaigns?

What about activities which are not linked to the campaigns in legal fact but basically are in practice? In the UK there was a programme a while back about how candidates were sailing as close to the wind as humanly possible to give their campaign more money - spending loads before the campaign officially started, "volunteers" were in fact basically seconded staff etc etc.

Senators are already doing their best to get funds for their state with scant regard for "the bigger picture". this system might make them even more grabby.