Quote Originally Posted by PanzerJaeger View Post
The article makes a good point about regulations - they are almost never written with the people's best interests at heart. I feel like a lot of people on the political left have this idea in their head of a hardworking, underpaid government bureaucrat pouring over charts and graphs trying to figure out what the most beneficial, equitable solution is to a particular public policy issue when in reality regulations are usually direct copy/pastes given to them by industry lobbyists.
Then fund your political parties through taxes, not donations.

Make political donations illigal, and make it illegal for elected officials to hold shares, stocks, or bonds.