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The price of bribery/lobbying is related to (price to influence) * (number of officials). Instead of raising the price to influence by paying them more, I recom
by unabridged 12y ago
The price of bribery/lobbying is related to (price to influence) * (number of officials). Instead of raising the price to influence by paying them more, I recommend raising the number of officials.
If congress had 10k members, bribing enough to get something passed would get quite expensive. (6320 would be the current min size of the US House of Representatives by the original method in the Constitution of at least 1 per 50k)
- arebop 12y agoI guess that would raise costs to 6320/435 = 14.5x. At $1.6 million per seat [http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/07/09/how-much-does-a-house-seat-cost/ http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/07/09/how-much-does-...] you could buy congress for $10.1 billion. The federal budget is about $3800 billion, so... this seems like an attractive price if the congress you buy is willing to steer a few percent of the federal budget into your pocket.