<story><title>Show HN: I&apos;m tired of corrupt US politicians, so I created this</title><url>http://www.politicianmarket.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>scottdw2</author><text>I don&apos;t think that public funding of elections or free advertising (see the bottom of the page) are the solutions to government corruption. That would just force bribers to be more covert. It&apos;s analogous to the fact that SOPA wouldn&apos;t stop piracy.&lt;p&gt;It seems to me that the real solution is to dramatically limit the size of government, so that there is nothing to be bought, rather then just changing the currency used to make the purchase.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>vectorpush</author><text>&lt;i&gt;dramatically limit the size of government&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;Any specifics? &quot;Limit the size of government&quot; is a trite platitude that &lt;i&gt;anyone&lt;/i&gt; could agree with on some level. Shove 100 random people in a room and you have 200 conflicting ideas about the appropriate role of government.</text></comment>
<story><title>Show HN: I&apos;m tired of corrupt US politicians, so I created this</title><url>http://www.politicianmarket.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>scottdw2</author><text>I don&apos;t think that public funding of elections or free advertising (see the bottom of the page) are the solutions to government corruption. That would just force bribers to be more covert. It&apos;s analogous to the fact that SOPA wouldn&apos;t stop piracy.&lt;p&gt;It seems to me that the real solution is to dramatically limit the size of government, so that there is nothing to be bought, rather then just changing the currency used to make the purchase.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>david927</author><text>The wealthiest countries in the world have large governments and don&apos;t have these problems.&lt;p&gt;Still, if we can bank online, we can vote online.  I see nothing stopping a proposal where if 25% of the public vote online, the result is accepted over what Congress voted.  No advertising allowed.  Suddenly, bribing/lobbying Congress would no longer make sense.</text></comment>