Thursday, August 31, 2017

Post-office bribery, part 2

Not only did Hilliary Clinton get a book advance which is probably ten times what its sales will justify, she's also asking more than $2000 a person to get prime seats on her book tour.  Sorry, but I can't see this as free markets, unless one expands that definition to "delayed payment for services rendered."


How to fix it?  Apart from decreeing that a politician shall be forbidden from receiving any payment for life from anyone whose business was impacted by that politician's decisions--a legal morass by any definition of the word--you can't.  What you can do, however, is reduce the amount of government funding and power so that the pool of bidders ("johns") for politicians' services becomes smaller.

2 comments:

Gino said...

seats for a book tour?? i wonder who's going to pay for that. i'd like ti see that list.

Bike Bubba said...

I'd like to compare that list with beneficiaries of her time in the Senate and as Secretary of State, yes. Don't anticipate anyone seeing that and making some conclusions, and I'm guessing it's one of the big reasons she scrubbed her illegal server.