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It seems like a more formalized quid pro quo system is needed so that political favors can be split across bills and relied upon. This sort of thing seems to be
by pfannkuchen 1y ago
It seems like a more formalized quid pro quo system is needed so that political favors can be split across bills and relied upon. This sort of thing seems to be human nature, it doesn’t help anyone to pretend in the procedural rules that it doesn’t happen.
- disgruntledphd2 1y agoThis was called pork when it used to happen and people were very angry about it.
- pfannkuchen 1y agoPork wasn’t formalized, though, was it? Though I agree that favors did seem to be more separated across bills in the past. This is an interesting manifestation of congress becoming a lower trust system, I suppose.