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He's basically saying there's profit-maximizing loopholes all over the place, and it's not his fault they exist...which is true. The real issue is that politic
by jb775 6y ago
He's basically saying there's profit-maximizing loopholes all over the place, and it's not his fault they exist...which is true.
The real issue is that politicians are shooting themselves in the foot career-wise if they try to close these loopholes. We need to reduce the incentives politicians get from action or inaction depending on chummy relationships with big business. A good start would be more rules around lobbyist relationships, and figuring out how to close the revolving door where politicians are given lucrative jobs/consultancies/speaking-fees/etc by these businesses after leaving office.
- supernova87a 6y agoI have the idea that if the money = free speech route is closed off to being solved by SCOTUS, the next best thing we could advocate for happening is to have limits on the number and size of corporations. There's nothing in the Constitution guaranteeing freedom of that. And Congress should do it before corporations are so powerful they can no longer escape their grasp.