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If the taxpayer wasn't so easily distracted they should be voting for Lobby Neutrality where the communication ways with politicians would be guaranteed to be e
by innguest 12y ago
If the taxpayer wasn't so easily distracted they should be voting for Lobby Neutrality where the communication ways with politicians would be guaranteed to be equal to everyone, be they a citizen or a corporation or Israel.
- wyager 12y ago> where the communication ways with politicians would be guaranteed to be equal to everyone, be they a citizen or a corporation or Israel. So... everyone in America is entitled to about 52 milliseconds a year with each politician? That's how you'd have to split it up to be "equal" (assuming we force politicians to spend an unrealistic 12 hours a day satisfying the requirement to provide "equal" lobbying opportunities).
- innguest 12y agoHow about everyone in America goes to some lobby.gov website, and either put in a new topic, or vote an existing topic up, for X amount of topics to be discussed the coming weekend. There are many ways to solve this, and even if each person had 52ms that would be better than the current system.
- tomjen3 12y agoThats actually not so stupid: you could donate your miliseconds to whatever cause or group you believe in and they would then get a pooled time to speak with the politician. Can't get ten thousand people in the US to care about your cause? Then the cause likely suck. There are certainly other, better options, but it is not clear that it is as bad as you suggested.