It’s the elected official’s job to ignore the bribe and do what is best for the people they represent. Our system of gov’t started out well in theory, but has been corrupted.
Could be, but that doesn’t change the fact that the transformations desired have enormous cost and people don’t want to pay enormous costs.
The BBC interviewed Professor Sir Dieter Helm, an economist at Oxford University. It starts at 32 minutes into the program.
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001471v
“There’s a juggernaut of cost to come…”
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