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(The Local (Sweden)) Unlikely Local politicians receive free dinners, booze, and money in anonymous envelopes to secure liquor licenses, find it hard to define this as bribery due to "lack of training" and "absence of a policy document"   (thelocal.se) divider line 15
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FrancoFile 2008-06-01 12:31:38 PM  
Sounds like every state legislature in the US.

 
I_Approve_Of_This_Message 2008-06-01 12:36:29 PM  
"When buying and selling is legislated, the first thing to be bought and sold are legislators." - P.J. O'Rourke

 
TMBGfreak 2008-06-01 12:44:37 PM  
1)Get elected to office and receive free booze as bribe
2)?????
3)WOOOOOOOO!

 
oldebayer [TotalFark] 2008-06-01 12:52:24 PM  
Yet another example of how state and local government is SO much better than the Federal boondoggle.

 
carmody 2008-06-01 12:55:25 PM  
Better get an anti-bribery law on the books, then...

Christ, this is worse than the warning labels on hammers. There shouldn't be a need, but then some idiot smashes his own face in (or takes bribes) and next thing you know, something has to be put down in writing.

 
Ace Frehley's Ghost 2008-06-01 12:59:12 PM  
Just more evidence that I'm in the wrong line of work.

 
Fano 2008-06-01 01:10:04 PM  
I_Approve_Of_This_Message:When buying and selling is legislated, the first thing to be bought and sold are legislators." - P.J. O'Rourke

This eleventy1111

Biggest argument for limited government. It should come as no surprise when it happens.

 
hasty ambush 2008-06-01 01:31:10 PM  
Anybody notice the link in the article about Union memebership collapsing in Sweden?

 
hasty ambush 2008-06-01 01:34:34 PM  
Fano: I_Approve_Of_This_Message:When buying and selling is legislated, the first thing to be bought and sold are legislators." - P.J. O'Rourke

This eleventy1111

Biggest argument for limited government. It should come as no surprise when it happens.

"A wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government." -- Thomas
Jefferson, First Inaugural Address

 
KramericaWallet 2008-06-01 02:20:19 PM  
This is obvious. The US is all about maximizing the number of rules and limitations and minimizing the space left for choice. That way, nobody has to do any thinking. Conversely, when a minimum of thinking might be required, Americans are totally lost.

And I'm not talking about George Costanza.

 
Bucky Katt [TotalFark] 2008-06-01 03:23:31 PM  
they get booze in envelopes? is that anything like wine in boxes?

 
fridgepants87 2008-06-01 06:22:37 PM  
Stop limiting farking liquor licenses.

 
Goodfella 2008-06-01 07:33:06 PM  
The key to succeeding in politics: plausible deniability!

 
jaehacker 2008-06-02 11:38:17 AM  
Like i've said before, it it now Politcally Correct to define bribery as perks.

 
jaehacker 2008-06-02 11:41:38 AM  
Like I have said before: It is NOW politically Correct to define bribery as Perks!

 
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