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by JumpCrisscross 379 days ago
> government contracts, if they were published and voted on like bills I suspect contractors would be way better

I'd guess the opposite. As evidence I present CEO pay, which went up with more transparency.

I like the idea of making public contracts searchable. But absent controls it will just lead to the partisan poisoning and context-free excerpting that characterises our low-brow political discourse.