I don’t have a link, but I remember an exposé a few years ago where some politician sold out their constituents for like 10k-100k in campaign contributions.
The response was along the lines of, ‘why don’t we just make a Kickstarter to buy them back’
Obviously this results in a bidding war we probably can’t win… And it’s, in theory, what PAC is supposed to be; but it might be useful in both defining a given politicians price, and in driving up the cost of corruption.
You don’t even need to bribe them, just trade favors is enough. They are very, very cheap.
I don’t have a link, but I remember an exposé a few years ago where some politician sold out their constituents for like 10k-100k in campaign contributions.
The response was along the lines of, ‘why don’t we just make a Kickstarter to buy them back’
Obviously this results in a bidding war we probably can’t win… And it’s, in theory, what PAC is supposed to be; but it might be useful in both defining a given politicians price, and in driving up the cost of corruption.
That feels very ‘free market’ to me.
edit: fixed autocorrect typo.
You can make that kind of money elsewhere. What senseless idiots.