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The USA would be a different country if it finally got around to banning bribery
by hertzrat 6y ago
The USA would be a different country if it finally got around to banning bribery
- tyingq 6y agoI agree, though sometimes it's not actually bribery. If a company, for example, offers inmate telecom services to a prison, and offers to do it at "no cost at all to the state" or "revenue share", it sounds attractive. Of course, that means "exorbitant costs to the prisoner's families".
- tgsovlerkhgsel 6y ago"Revenue share" makes the bribery apparent. This is one of the things that needs regulation, because there will be a monopoly.
- kortilla 6y agoRevenue share isn’t bribery because the revenue isn’t shared with the judge. It’s a cost structure to make the municipality or whatever avoid having to outlay money to build something. Similar to some joint public/private toll roads, red light cameras, etc.
- chordalkeyboard 6y agoIt is banned, thats why they use the workarounds. Prohibition frequently doesn’t eliminate.
- azekai 6y agoIf you can de-incentivize a behavior, you can prevent it. But just 'banning bribery' has already been done. Banning any and all perverse incentives from the justice system is actually very difficult to the point of near-impossibility. Hence the current system.