Comment on Min wage in most states is so sad
boonhet@sopuli.xyz 1 month ago
The idea behind a high salary for representatives is that they don’t need to take on extra money from lobbyists to survive. Keep the salaries, but make bribery illegal again and things will get better. Make the salaries low AND get the money out of politics and you’ll only get rich people becoming politicians. Oh and term limits should be a thing.
Uranus_Hz@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
Bribery is still illegal. But it’s not a “bribe” unless it’s paid directly to the candidate in exchange for something specific (quid pro quo). So you just need to obfuscate that deal enough so that you can’t prove it’s a bribe, in the legal sense. (SuperPACs, etc).
boonhet@sopuli.xyz 1 month ago
Tbf yes, that’s what I meant. The legal form of bribery, shouldn’t be.
Uranus_Hz@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
99% of a lawyers job is to find loopholes in the law.
jj4211@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Yes, and thus we should endeavor to find and close the loopholes as they come up.
RagingRobot@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Just pay well in advance of whatever you ask for and it’s fine