How exactly could a despot be corrupt though? I mean everything they do and say is legal.

Corruption=/=legality.

I'd call pork-barreling corrupt to a degree, but it's still legal.

I mean, isn't the entire point of anti-corruption legislation to fight corruption not previously deemed illegal?

There really is no way. Power always corrupts. The income tax made it all possible, and they never had such an authority.

Well considering the government clearly had the power to impose an income tax, it seems a bit redundant to say the income tax enabled it.

tyranny.

Okay pal.

Quote from: Meta Cognition on January 16, 2015, 05:35:23 PM

Well considering the government clearly had the power to impose an income tax

No, they do not. That is called tyranny.

LOL

holy shit that gave me a good chuckle

do you perform at the comedy cellar?

State funded political campaigns

That would increase corruption. Bureaucrats will be running around all over the place trying to secure the government best within their interests. Plus, I don't want my tax money paying for a party I don't support.

Everybody would get equal funding... how is that corrupt?

Bureaucrats will be running around all over the place trying to secure the government best within their interests.

It's not financially respectable, either. How do you decide whether or not a third-party should qualify for full-funding? It just doesn't work.

where I talked about getting rid of political parties...

Which is even worse and increase corruption still. There'd be no ideological cohesion to stop corrupting influences from permeating the legislature, and it'd cause further issues with partisanship which America faces today.