[45578] in Cypherpunks
Re: Political Cleanup program
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Johnathan Corgan)
Mon Dec 18 14:11:09 1995
Date: Mon, 18 Dec 1995 10:33:54 -0800
To: Duncan Frissell <frissell@panix.com>, Brian Davis <bdavis@thepoint.net>
From: Johnathan Corgan <jcorgan@aeinet.com>
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.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.
