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50 years after the fact? Probably not. When it comes to corruption, an expensive resource being sold by the government for cheap is usually evidence enough. I d

• wpietri 12y ago
  > 50 years after the fact? Probably not. 50 years after the fact is the best time to get evidence. Memoirs, personal files, government files: people are willing to say more, as it would come at no cost to them. > When it comes to corruption, an expensive resource being sold by the government for cheap is usually evidence enough. What will come out probably has. No, no it's not. One, Hanlon's Razor. Two, accusing actual people of crime and corruption should take more than your fantasies. And three public service is, as I said, an actual thing. > In fact, in a sense the act itself is corruption anyway - forgoing potential revenue which would have to be made up in the form of taxes. No, that's a modern corporatist take on how entities are supposed to function. Revenue maximization is a modern religion. As we already discussed, Coase's suggestion in 1959 that you should auction spectrum was novel and controversial. That you can only see alternatives to that as corruption says more about you than it does about the Federal Radio Commission of a century ago.