[natedogg]

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2) Campaign finance reform and similar policies: ... However, the only realistic way for all of this nonsense is to make it so that politicians are not dependent on the donations of the wealthy for career viability;

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Even that won't work because the rent-seekers will find a way. You have it all wrong. The only way for all this nonsense to end is for the rent-seekers to have no rent to seek. And the only way for this to happen is if the leaders who are giving away the rents can no longer do so. Congress (and state governments) must be stripped of the authority to *spend* most of the revenues they collect. They should have a very narrow scope of what they can spend money on.

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