The per-vote  subsidy shouldn't have been there to begin with..  It gave to the political parties whether you wanted them to have the additional funds or not.. on top of it all you were still allowed to donate and still got a tax reduction for your efforts.  Look, if a political party spends money it can write it off.. and no matter what the tax-payer is always on the hook for it simply because that's the way our system works... but the per-vote subsidy was icing on the cake.