[45573] in Cypherpunks
Re: Political Cleanup program
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Duncan Frissell)
Mon Dec 18 11:57:32 1995
Date: Mon, 18 Dec 1995 11:11:54 -0500
To: Brian Davis <bdavis@thepoint.net>
From: Duncan Frissell <frissell@panix.com>
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
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.
DCF