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On 4 Oct 2024 23:14:50 GMT, rbowman wrote:

> The US is notorious for perks.

I would describe your system as “soft corruption”: it seems like, as long 
as you cannot directly tie particular dollar campaign contributions to 
particular votes, anything less than that is perfectly fine.

Remember, “innocent until proven guilty” is only supposed to apply to 
private citizens going about their private business; those who are given 
statutory power over others must prove themselves to be squeaky clean, to 
be morally qualified to exercise this power; if there is any reasonable 
doubt about this, they must step down.