Another Modest Proposal...

[Jackpine Radical]

This is an age of outsourcing and privatization of what were once thought of as public services. Even many of the traditional roles of the military have now been let out on contracts. Each step along the privatization path brings about indisputable advances in efficiency, particularly efficiency in transferring the contents of the public purse to private pockets. It is now time to take the final step in privatizing the awarding of political offices.

Here’s how it would work: Each public office, whether local, state or Federal, would be put up for bids. The high bidder would get the office, and the public treasury would receive the proceeds from the sale of the office. The successful candidate would then make money from the office by, in turn, selling his votes to the highest bidder. If two competing industries want incompatible pieces of legislation, the industry that buys more votes would get to have its legislation passed.

This system would be incredibly effective. It would eliminate all the costs associated with our electoral process, and would vastly simplify the means by which the moneyed interests of the nation and the world secure their interests in the political arena. Everything would be simple and aboveboard. No more accusations of election fraud, no more ridiculous and unkept promises from the politicians, no more stultifying environmental regulations to hem in American industry, no more nonsense about minimum wage or workplace standards from the annoying liberals.

[madmusic]

1. Excellent! K&R

[ChairmanAgnostic]

2. most offices in ILL are already up for bids/donations to Gov's campaign.

it just happens to be illegal.

[WHEN CRABS ROAR]

3. It works like that

Now!

[Jackpine Radical]

4. Well, yes, it does work sorta like that.

But very inefficiently, with that whole cumbersome election theft apparatus that you could just completely eliminate with my plan.