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by JumpCrisscross 1044 days ago
> reported on as if the loopholes allowing foreign money into US politics was not intentional in the first place

It wasn’t. It’s literally illegal.

> would be quite simple to close these sorts of holes

How would you do it? What would be your coalition, i.e. which voting blocs would either turn out more or flip for this?

Maybe you have something beyond reflexive cynicism. But when I hear peoples’ simple solutions to such policy problems, even setting aside the politics, it takes no more than minutes to structure a loophole. That doesn’t mean you’re corrupt or stupid. It means it’s a hard problem.