{"id":28528,"date":"2020-07-07T11:08:32","date_gmt":"2020-07-07T01:08:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=28528"},"modified":"2020-07-07T11:08:32","modified_gmt":"2020-07-07T01:08:32","slug":"us-anti-corruption-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=28528","title":{"rendered":"US Anti-Corruption Act"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"960\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/US_Anti_Corruption_Act.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-28529\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/US_Anti_Corruption_Act.jpg 960w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/US_Anti_Corruption_Act-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/US_Anti_Corruption_Act-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/US_Anti_Corruption_Act-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/US_Anti_Corruption_Act-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The political donations aspect of this applies equally in Australia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I would go further and ban all dontaions from corporations to political campaigns and limit the amount individuals can donate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Trouble is, good guys don&#8217;t need rules and bad guys can&#8217;t\/don&#8217;t follow them. They are bad because they can&#8217;t follow rules. So they will find a new way to be bad or just break the rules.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What will solve the problem is more ethical candidates and a more aware populace. That is not a quick fix. It takes time and effort.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The political donations aspect of this applies equally in Australia. I would go further and ban all dontaions from corporations to political campaigns and limit the amount individuals can donate. Trouble is, good guys don&#8217;t need rules and bad guys can&#8217;t\/don&#8217;t follow them. They are bad because they can&#8217;t follow rules. So they will find &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=28528\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;US Anti-Corruption Act&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28528"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28530,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28528\/revisions\/28530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}