make a bad investment

“So, if you’re a Republican trying to get people to donate to a Senate campaign, you’re asking them to make a bad investment. If you’re a rich person seeking to self-fund a campaign, you’re likely to lose a lot of your own money,” Pitney added.

Defenders counter that only the most meritorious cases are funded, since anything less would make a bad investment.

“The best way I can explain it is that if somebody gives you $50,000, and you say you need to spend this by a certain date, are you going to make a bad investment?”

If you make a bad investment you can write that off and the rest of the taxpayers will help subsidize you, and bail you out.

If you make a bad investment, you are supposed to pay the full price — because if you don’t pay the full price, you will keep making bad investments.