It would still allow parties promoting the direct interests of capital much
more resources than parties representing the interests of working people.
Besides a nod and a wink can always be made subsequently.
This proposal is truly reformist. The only merit is that it focuses
attention on the
SLATE wrote:
[Anonymous donantions of unlimited amounts.] A trusted financial
institution say Vanguard sets up accounts in the names of all recognized
candidates. If you want to contribute to Bush, you write a check to
Vanguard with instructions to deposit it in the Bush account.
Andrew
Chris B. wrote:
It would still allow parties promoting the direct interests of capital
much more resources than parties representing the interests of working people.
of course, that's the way it is now. It seems to me that the proposal might
set up a free rider problem in which ExxonMobil says
On Sat, 26 May 2001 08:46:06 -0700, Jim Devine wrote:
actually, the job of the central authority isn't to _identify_ corrupt
behavior. Rather, its job is to prevent such behavior: [...]
These two functions are not different in practice. If corrupt behavior
is to be stopped it must be both
Of course, the Supreme Court would call the inability of a person to tell
the politician about a donation, but then everybody could claim to have
donated millions of $.
--
Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
Chico, CA 95929
Tel. 530-898-5321
E-Mail [EMAIL
Michael wrote:
everybody could claim to have
donated millions of $.
which devalues the actual giving of money in terms of buying influence.
Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~JDevine
Exactly what I meant. Sort of like making the billionaires for Bush/Gore
indistinguishable from the real donors.
On Sat, May 26, 2001 at 09:32:40AM -0700, Jim Devine wrote:
Michael wrote:
everybody could claim to have
donated millions of $.
which devalues the actual giving of money in
from SLATE:
Don't Ask, Don't Tell Campaign-Finance Reform
Would it make politics cleaner? I dunno.
By Steven E. Landsburg
Steven E. Landsburg is the author, most recently, of Fair Play: What Your
Child Can Teach You About Economics, Values, and the Meaning of Life. You
can e-mail him at
On Fri, 25 May 2001 16:44:49 -0700, Jim Devine wrote:
[Anonymous donantions of unlimited amounts.] A trusted financial
institution say Vanguard sets up accounts in the names of all recognized
candidates. If you want to contribute to Bush, you write a check to
Vanguard with instructions to
