The answer is the "Well I know what your answer is. It's the same answer that audiences give me whenever I discuss this particular problem: The answer is no. The taxpayers shouldn't be required to finance items which are not official business but which are primarily political business.
This is true. You shouldn't split your infinitives unless necessary for grammatical reasons, while splitting them to add a modification in the middle creates a weird, awkward sentence.
<span>The transition word is 'but' it allows the reader to understand there is another part to the sentence. That there is a cause and effect to the sentence.</span>