> Well if nothing else, your points about corruption are arguments against government in general :-) Decentralize power back to the people themselves. If I have

> Well if nothing else, your points about corruption are arguments against government in general :-) Decentralize power back to the people themselves. If I have no power over another, then my corruption affects only me. Tragedy of the Commons is what occurs then as well as an inability to defend oneself against those who use force. Go move to some country with essentially a nonexistent government and see how this works out for you if you genuinely believe I am wrong. > However, corruption at the local level affects a limited number of people, and since local politics are easy to influence, they can be changed. Local politicians get into criminal trouble all the time, so they are not immune to the law. So your argument is to make it cheaper, easier, and dismantle the checks and balances by defunding the enforcement mechanism at the federal level? Seriously? Do you not understand that logically plays out until the local politicians are unable to be held accountable to a higher authority?