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Every now and then I contemplate a system where, after leaving office, former high-level government officials are provided with a generous pension but subjected
by tesseract 15y ago
Every now and then I contemplate a system where, after leaving office, former high-level government officials are provided with a generous pension but subjected to a 100% tax on any income whatsoever from non-government sources. Obviously such a system has plenty of disadvantages - but apart from those, I wonder whether it would help the revolving door problem at all, or whether cronyism would persist even without financial motivation.
- socillion 15y agoBut then you have to also regulate the income of their family - it would be all to easy to give those financial motivations to their spouse, children, or others close to them.
- tesseract 15y agoRight, and there's also the ever popular "we'll donate to your favorite charity" maneuver (for a non-government example, witness the Captain Morgan NFL touchdown dance mini-controversy of a few years back). It might be possible to do something about the friends/family issue with careful crafting of the laws - or maybe I'm just a closet monarchist. ;)