On 5 May 2015 at 11:12, meekerdb <[email protected]> wrote:

>  Where does the money go once it's bought votes?
>
>
> It's redistributed.  So after the Koch brothers spend $889,000,000 in the
> next election to cast 29,816 votes, each of the 129 million voters will get
> back $6.88 (plus the $1 they put in plus a share of whatever other big
> spenders put in).  Actually I think the Bros will be better off buying
> attack ads with their billion.
>

Ah, I see. Since the various interest groups already spend millions on
spreading their views via various media, presumably one caveat with QV
would be that any form of political advertising or support for parties or
editorialising "outside" the system would be illegal, and heavily penailsed
if it occurred - otherwise the current system is far more efficient from
the viewpoint of the 1%, and they will just stick with using their
newspapers and TV channels to support their chosen candidates.

Or am I missing the point?

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