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Re:A Chicago Newspaper That Bought a Bar by gwbas1c on Thursday October 05, 2017 @09:15AM (#15408858)
> I think one of the things that amazed us is that these inspectors sold out public safety on the cheap. They were not taking huge amounts. We were told to leave $10 for one inspector, and $25 for another inspector.

According to inflation, that's $40.25 and $100.62 in today's dollars. That's pretty much a joke!

https://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/cpicalc.pl?cost1=25&year1=19770...

Re:A Chicago Newspaper That Bought a Bar by JohnicBoom on Thursday October 05, 2017 @02:05PM (#15411201)
It seems like a joke, but the amounts make sense.

It can't be so expensive that all of the inspectors' combined bribes become too expensive for the least able institution to afford. You don't want the bribes to be such a burden that someone complains, either. When you're inspecting possibly multiple businesses in a day, 5 days a week, all those "cheap" bribes add up to a nice tax-free bonus paycheck on top of what the government is paying you to do the job.