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The problem is actually in the wide gulf between illegal bribery, and regulated lobbying. The law says "This is lobbying, these are the rules, and required rep
by goda90 5y ago
The problem is actually in the wide gulf between illegal bribery, and regulated lobbying. The law says "This is lobbying, these are the rules, and required reporting", and the law says "This is bribery, and these are the punishments". There's a lot of activities involving politicians and money that don't fall under either.
- notahacker 5y agoAnd removing the legal stuff (candidates get publicly disclosed campaign donations from companies in all the industries they're favourably disposed towards the status quo in, which gives a pretty visible hint to any voters who care about how they're going to vote on the issue) potentially backfires by making the grey area stuff more powerful (candidates have much smaller campaign budgets from capped donations from private individuals, but mystery benefactors are spending a disproportionate amount on astroturf campaigns against some of them anyway)