"calling for them to become unemployable "

Good luck with that. One common form of corruption is companies hiring public officials who helped them out.

How bout punishing those handing out the bribes? Oh noes they are rich, powerful, well connected and have an army of lawyers. Let's rather fry the small fish. No snark intended.

I agree, we should go after them too, but right now it's not usually illegal to bribe people, and where companies and industries can't do it directly and openly they'll do it indirectly and quietly to get around the law.

We can try to increase regulations and enforcement, but as long as people don't face any consequence for accepting bribes, I don't like our odds getting those changes pushed through. Without the power of the law on our side, we're better off putting pressure on the small fish since it's hard to put real social pressure on corporations and industries that make more money in a year than the collective wealth of entire nations.