1250
submitted 1 year ago by DeadWorld@lemm.ee to c/brainworms@lemm.ee
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[-] Anticorp@lemmy.ml 44 points 1 year ago

We're allowed, but without a fruit basket stuffed with money they're not going to listen.

[-] Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 14 points 1 year ago

They're surprisingly not that expensive to buy though, 10k will get you pretty much whatever you want...

[-] themeatbridge@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago

$10k will get you access, but you won't convince a politician to do something that will cost them all of the other $10k checks they get from special interests.

Like if you wanted to buy a senator in order to get some earmarks for your development projects, you could probably get that buying a table at a fundraiser or two. But if you want them to pass legislation supporting unions or reducing the influence of money in politics, you'd basically have to bankroll their whole campaign because they wouldn't raise another dime.

[-] Anticorp@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 year ago

I wonder if I could use $10k to get a law passed that every company needs my safety manual in their business that I totally had professionally bound and didn't print at Kinko's.

[-] JJROKCZ@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

The majority of Americans don’t have 10k unneeded liquid cash

[-] Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

No, but a bunch of Americans together have 10k, it just so happens that it's just the conservative ones who figured it out.

this post was submitted on 12 Oct 2023
1250 points (99.4% liked)

BrainWorms

1214 readers
126 users here now

Hey, welcome to BrainWorms.

This is a place where I post interesting things that I find and cant categorize into one of the main subs I follow. Enjoy a front seat as i descend into madness

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS