I get it, but wouldn’t it be easier to just make lobbying free and let everyone have a say instead of taking the money and risking the nation’s security by foreign influence?
I mean, it’s just opening up your country for catastrophe at this point.
The only way to do that really at the moment would be to give Congress members a discretionary fund to use for getting constituents out to speak with them on the issues, the problem with that is that it gives the Congress critters the ability to influence who’s able to talk to them by just never scheduling people who want to talk about shit they’re not interested in.
It would also require Congress critters to never attend any sort of educational conference which runs afowl of freedom of association.
I get it, but wouldn’t it be easier to just make lobbying free and let everyone have a say instead of taking the money and risking the nation’s security by foreign influence?
I mean, it’s just opening up your country for catastrophe at this point.
The only way to do that really at the moment would be to give Congress members a discretionary fund to use for getting constituents out to speak with them on the issues, the problem with that is that it gives the Congress critters the ability to influence who’s able to talk to them by just never scheduling people who want to talk about shit they’re not interested in.
It would also require Congress critters to never attend any sort of educational conference which runs afowl of freedom of association.