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I think we should just let Democrats bribe voters from the public purse. Lots of deadbeats would have voted a straight Dem ticket for 10 dollars. Ten thousand is really inefficient, even if it wasn't rotten in so many other ways.

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I'd rather politicians bribe voters than donors. Less chance of oppressive oligarchy that way.

Tell that to the Romans and the patronage systems.

Where in the loan transference program does it state that campaign donations are being made illegal?

You're barking down the wrong tree.

We're talking about the prediliction of one party in the US to bribe one group relative to another, not the other way around.

But since you asked, Democrats have well established intention of getting big donors out of the camapaign game. It's in their national platform and everything.

Democrats have a well-established pattern, however, of taking the most they can from the largest donors they can find.

That's the trouble with playing a game with changable rules, isn't it?

Ignoring advantages because of the rules you wish were in place seems like a great way to consistently lose. Then how do the rules get changed?

yeah, I'd much rather politicians give that money to their friends via way over-priced government contracts that will never benefit the majority of us, and probably end up 'lost' by the Defense Department ten years down the line, than actually doing something that might make people's lives better, and actually give a damn about this country because they don't feel like politicians are constantly bleeding them dry and selling that blood to rich blood thirsty oligarchs.

/s - I would definitely rather we tackle homelessness, poverty, debt, and create upward mobility for the lower classes, because I'm not a narcissistic greedy bastard.

If a free market was opened for votes, 1) the price wouldn't be anything like 10 dollars, it would be thousands of times that, 2) people would be satisfied with government, because they would have been paid to be screwed, and 3) the environment would be destroyed and the US would be at war with every country all the time.

3) is a no-op, so I'm genuinely sympathetic to letting politicians buy votes.

> bribe voters from the public purse.

You're referring to bribing voters from the purse of the voters. That's the only function of government.

Ah yes. The Bush and Trump tax cuts were not bribes from the public purse. Just sound fiscal policy.

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