The billionaire donors are giving their campaigns money - direct bribery is still illegal. They make their millions from either a) book deals and speaking tours (generally legal and legitimate), b) insider trading (illegal but rarely enforced against congresspeople), or c) leaving Congress to influence peddle for private companies for inflated salaries (needs to be much more heavily regulated).
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Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 4 weeks ago
pretty sure most of them are millionaires, because the billionaire donors are giving them money, in other forms.
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CitizenKong@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Also politicians wouldn’t exactly be less corruptible if they were poorer.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 4 weeks ago
i think it makes them more susceptible to it, because they need money, and will do anything for it. mtg and boeboe were poor by congress standard, after less than 2 years they became millionaires overnight.