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Personally, I like the idea of a limit on what can be spent during an election.
We have that here. It isn't perfect: the rest o fthe year political parties can spend what they like; but once an eection is called every last penny of a campaign (local and national) has to be counted. In my local election I was allowed to spend a little under £1000. That included 'nominal expenses': i.e if I use a supporters office for free in the evenings I have to work out what that would cost if I was having to pay for it and that gets written down and counted as an expense. It works the same way in each parliamentary seat as well, but with a higher limit ( I think it's about £30k, but I may be wrong on that).
It does make you a lot more careful in spending during an election and it does go some way to levelling the electoral playing field a little.
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