On Sun, 17 Dec 1995, James A. Donald wrote:
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
See my earlier post.
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
Not to mention the death of the First Amendment. Which, under your scenario, would probably mean the death (or curtailment) of Cypherpunks.
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.
I'm not sure what you mean here: are politicians to be prohibited from campaigning (which cost money)? And if politicians, who generally take the form of human beings, can't get at $$$, how can you or I?
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