Re: Political Cleanup program

[Johnathan Corgan <jcorgan@aeinet.com>]

At 11:11 AM 12/18/95 -0500, Duncan Frissell wrote:

>At 10:35 AM 12/18/95 -0500, Brian Davis wrote:
>
>>> A better solution is to move assets and money into forms where
>>> politicians cannot get at them, thus reducing the power of politicians,
>>> and thus the incentive to buy favors from them.
>>
>>I'm not sure what you mean here:  are politicians to be prohibited from 
>>campaigning (which cost money)?  And if politicians, who generally take 
>>the form of human beings, can't get at $$$, how can you or I?
>
>Brian, the above means cut the power and the purse of politicians so they
>have nothing to sell to contributors so no contributors will buy.

Yep.  

If politicians didn't have capricious, arbitrary, and absolute power over 
individuals and businesses, there would be no market for influence peddling.