Nobody ever mentions George Soros funding all democrat and leftwing groups for billions of dollars, or Tom Steyer, or the Blackstone Group funding the BHO 2012 campaign. It is known why. Because the hypocrisy of focusing on the Koch's is progressive (read stalinist) strategy, while ignoring Soros, Steyer and Blackstone, and Comcast, who fund the"party." Hypocrisy reeks, when the other Oligarchs of the Left, get identified and the silence from the progressives become deafening. I wonder how much the cost of buying voters with free cell phones cost? Oh yes, that was Mexican billionaire, Carlos Slim's company that made all those Bama phones. See? Rightwing corruption exists, but not Leftist.
-----Original Message----- From: meekerdb <[email protected]> To: everything-list <[email protected]> Sent: Tue, May 5, 2015 9:51 pm Subject: Re: quadratic voting On 5/5/2015 5:34 PM, LizR wrote: 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. I think you're right that such a restriction would be needed; but I don't know whether it's actually proposed that way. I've never studied voting systems much beyond Arrow's theorem, but I know a mathematician who's writing a book about various systems. He's not impressed by quadratic voting: http://rangevoting.org/MonetizedRV.html Brent Or am I missing the point? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
