Getting Money Out of Politics
Will solve everything
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Won't do much
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To solve many of the problems with government political offices should be a civic duty with a modest pay and very strict heavily enforced corruption laws. The opposite of what it is now. People should not want to be career politicians. As it is now the will of the people is lost to the will of the few with the most money to give. Side: Will solve everything
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So long as there is economy and the government is involved in it, politics will be about money. Not that that has to be inherently bad, though. The problem for democracy is less that there is money in politics and more the degree of concentration, accompanied with lack of transparency and etc. Side: Won't do much
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Not really, since as I said I think that such a separation is not possible nor fundamentally the source of the problem. If changing wealth distribution is difficult because the economy is pseudo-Smithian, then it would be equally the case with restricting how money can be used. Moreover, whereas money in politics has been effectively the norm throughout the economic history of most nations (including the US) there have been more egalitarian nations and moments of egalitarianism within the US, as well as a gradual trend towards egalitarianism I think. From a more cynical standpoint, I might argue that neither is worth the effort. Power (including through wealth) gradually concentrates in the hands of increasingly fewer people, because power breeds more of itself for those who already have it and is harder to come by for those who do not. At a certain point the power becomes too concentrated to realistically revert any of it back to a greater number of persons, except through total overthrow and restart. Side: Will solve everything
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