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[–] 41 points 1 week ago (6 children)

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.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 week ago* (5 children)

    Bribery is still illegal. But it’s not a “bribe” unless it’s paid directly to the politician 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).

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  • [–] 8 points 1 week ago (3 children)

    Tbf yes, that's what I meant. The legal form of bribery, shouldn't be.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 week ago (2 children)

    99% of a lawyers job is to find loopholes in the law.

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