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So imagine it being a marketplace. When some bill needs to be beaten and a lot of money collects then the voters can select which lobbying firm to give it to.

So imagine it being a marketplace. When some bill needs to be beaten and a lot of money collects then the voters can select which lobbying firm to give it to. And this would lead to them getting the money and having to prove what they are doing with the money. So its like a marketplace connecting lobbyists to constituents.

anigbrowl 15y ago
Organizations like the EFF already lobby on this sort of topic. There's no secret sauce or suitcases of cash involved; lobbyists are just people who know how to sell policies to politicians. Personally, I'd say that the the best way to move forward on this is to publicly write large checks to the EFF (with whom I am not affiliated, btw). Inventing a new market mechanism for this purpose is equivalent to saying that you don't understand how the existing marketplace works. This isn't something you can simply automate away, for the same reason that government by plebiscite is not historically effective.