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Re:Life, work, death and the peasant: Rent and extraction by pqtyw on Sunday September 14, 2025 @05:20AM (#45238602)
I guess having parties funded entirely by small private donations or maybe a way to optionally allocate some share of the taxes you pay yourself and banning all direct funding from government and corporations could be the least bad option.
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Re:Life, work, death and the peasant: Rent and extraction by mantas on Sunday September 14, 2025 @02:51PM (#45242302)
That’s what is going on here

- parties repeatedly getting 2% over 4 years get gov donations

- parties can take capped membership fees

- private citizen can forward a minuscule part of incomes tax towards a specific party, fully anonymously

- during campaigning, private people can donate to parties, capped to a small percentage of donator official incomes.

Fun thing is, this was put in place after an attempt to install a local equivalent of Orban. Bankrolled by a businessman with close ties to Russia.

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