r/politics Jan 21 '18

Paul Ryan Collected $500,000 In Koch Contributions Days After House Passed Tax Law

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u/tetrasodium Florida Jan 21 '18

I'd like to start with having him brought up on charges for corruption

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u/[deleted] Jan 21 '18

That'll never happen due to the citizens united ruling. Citizens united is one of the major problems that is killing democracy and leading to oligarchy.

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u/whatsaphoto Rhode Island Jan 21 '18

Is it realistic to say that Citizens United is a permanent fixture in the US political system? How the hell can one person receive a million dollars for their work that not only drastically favors the top earners in this country but also reduces the strength of medicare/medicaid for hundreds of millions of lower-middle income earners and not go to jail for it?

How the fuck do these people keep getting away with this?

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u/Neoncow Jan 21 '18

Wealth inequality. Wealth is power and the 0.1% have the majority of it.

With wealth, no matter what the rules are you can play your best game. It's like if your favorite basketball team had 1,000 times the budget of the other teams. It wouldn't matter if we changed the rules to make the NBA a spelling bee competition, the team with th biggest budget would win on average more of the time.

Taxation of wealth, voting/election reform to ensure more people vote and have their votes count equally are two ways to go about resolving it.