re: #148 jcm

Throw the Bastards Out movements fail consistently. Everyone counts on everyone else to throw their bastard out, ‘cause my local bastard is okay and did bring home a library / bridge / or highway.

There is something inherently flawed in our system in that politicians have a perverse incentive to spend other people’s (defined as our) money and by doing so increasing their chances of being re-elected.
We should have a law that forbids a politician from voting for goodies that benefit his own constituents and by definition himself.
Of course if we did, then they’d just all make back room deals with each other to vote for each other’s projects……….