"The Conservatives raised money on %5 and $10 donations. They got a lot of money because they have a lot of supporters."

A 'lot' is a relative metric. The CPC had about 100k  'contributors' in 2009, probably a little less than that since a number of 'anonymous' small contributions are made by the same people. The issue I'm raising is that in total, a very small number of people (less than 200k across all parties) contribute cash for electoral financing. There is a massive tax expenditure sourced from everyone flowing to these 200k for their tax credits. More to the point, it is not 'equitable' when electoral financing is 'controlled' by such a small percentage of voters. Yes, the vote subsidy has problems. It has less problems than any other electoral financing mode in use or suggested. If you vote, you control where your tax dollars go under the vote subsidy system, while, under the same scenario, if you do not 'contribute' you do have a tax dollar outflow of 'your' taxes.