From: "James A. Donald" <jamesd@echeque.com>
Date: Mon, 18 Dec 1995 17:03:33 +0800
To: jim bell <cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Political Cleanup program
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At 11:04 AM 12/17/95 -0800, jim bell wrote:
> It occurs to me that it would be a major advance if a system could be set up
> that would "blind" campaign donations as to their source:  The donor could
> be satisfied that his donation gets to the candidate or cause, but the
> candidate couldn't know  who actually paid the money

To make this work, the government would need to prohibit individuals
from campaigning for politicians, taking out ads with political 
consequences, and so on and so forth.   A short step from 
totalitarianism

A better solution is to move assets and money into forms where
politicians cannot get at them, thus reducing the power of politicians,
and thus the incentive to buy favors from them.



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