I don’t think they had offshore bank accounts, tax inversion, or LLCs back in Lincoln’s day but I doubt the politics was any cleaner. The real threat to democracy is corruption and vested interests passing “special” laws written to favor them. Somehow we need to take the money out of elections. I think short campaign cycles and term limits would go a long way towards this goal.
I don’t think they had offshore bank accounts, tax inversion, or LLCs back in Lincoln’s day but I doubt the politics was any cleaner. The real threat to democracy is corruption and vested interests passing “special” laws written to favor them. Somehow we need to take the money out of elections. I think short campaign cycles and term limits would go a long way towards this goal.