I don’t like the long term effects of condoning corruption.
That just makes politicians rent seek even more - and might incite jealousy in any politicians who missed out on that bribe. They’ll be back next election getting bribed by a bigger billionaire.
I’d think better to try to reduce corruption.
That’s ignoring the fact that billionaires are already lobbying governments to pay less in taxes. If nothing else, a billionaire lobbying to pay more in taxes would highlight the hypocrisy of the current system and expose the existing corruption.
In the current system you have to use money to
lobby if you want your agenda enacted. One could argue that the only ethical thing you could pay to lobby would be enacting laws that make lobbying illegal.
I don’t like the long term effects of condoning corruption. That just makes politicians rent seek even more - and might incite jealousy in any politicians who missed out on that bribe. They’ll be back next election getting bribed by a bigger billionaire. I’d think better to try to reduce corruption.
That’s ignoring the fact that billionaires are already lobbying governments to pay less in taxes. If nothing else, a billionaire lobbying to pay more in taxes would highlight the hypocrisy of the current system and expose the existing corruption.
In the current system you have to use money to lobby if you want your agenda enacted. One could argue that the only ethical thing you could pay to lobby would be enacting laws that make lobbying illegal.