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Re:A Small Town Judge Who Sees a Quarter of the Nation’s Pat... by jessaustin on Thursday May 05, 2016 @01:58PM (#11638330)
This seems similar to the "traffic jams on new roads" phenomenon, by which adding more lanes or roads in an urban area actually increases traffic rather than alleviating it as highway-construction fans always expect. Providing public resources like courts or roads is never a neutral action, so political corruption is always a possibility.
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Re:A Small Town Judge Who Sees a Quarter of the Nation’s Pat... by raould42 on Thursday May 05, 2016 @02:15PM (#11638494)
From what I have seen in life, of how everybody including myself behaves, and how I think/feel, it is not just a possibility. The question is not is there any political corruption at all, the question is how much more than zero is it? When we fail to have checks and balances at all, or that actually try to work, then we're kinda doomed.
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