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Ethics Reform Only Goes So Far

By Kleinheider Posted on July 13, 2009 at 6:21 pm

If you want to reduce corruption, Rand Paul says, you must reduce the size of the state:

Unsurprisingly, the areas where government has the most involvement are the areas with the most lobbyists. Healthcare crisis? Over $3.4 billion in the last ten years spent lobbying. Banking crisis? Over $3.5 billion. Energy crisis? Over $2.4 billion. Those lobbyist dollars are one reason such problems persist. Instead of voting to address a crisis, politicians vote to appease a select few insiders.

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2 Responses to “Ethics Reform Only Goes So Far”

  1. common sense writes
    July 13th, 2009 10:54 pm

    Reducing the size of the state also proven to cure hiccups, restore sight, regrow hair, and end poverty.

  2. spaz writes
    July 13th, 2009 11:31 pm

    Except that the GOVERNMENT isn’t spending any of that money.

    It’s the special interests that are paying those billions out their pockets to lobby the government. Conservatives would consider lobbying to be a cost of doing business.

    Since it’s been liberals who have been leading the charge for clean election laws and publicly-funded elections for the last 40 years, does this make Rand Paul a closet liberal?

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