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Republican senators are working to over turn a state-wide bill in South Dakota that was voted in by the citizen's ballot to end corruption in politics. They bill was sworn in by the people on election day Nov. 9th, 2016...  It's only been 2 months and these corrupt politicians are trying to destroy it...  Worst of all, it's mostly fellow republicans!

 They are pushing through HOUSE BILL 1069 by using a state of emergency.  They need to use a state of emergency in order to accomplish this task because if they repealed The Anti-Corrupt Act created by represent.us naturally then it would need to be repealed by ballet.

This is the most sickening discovery I've made in a long time.

 

More information can be found here:

 

Information about the bill.

http://sdlegislature.gov/docs/legsession/2017/Bills/HB1069P.pdf

https://legiscan.com/SD/bill/HB1069/2017

 

What is The Anti-Corruption Act..?

http://anticorruptionact.org/ -- CREATED BY: https://represent.us

 

More can be found out about it from they're YouTube page.

 

 

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I am confused by your bewilderment.  You think the government is corrupt enough to require a bill to end corruption, yet when this corruption manifests itself you are shocked and appalled.  Not that you shouldn't be, but I inferred an element of surprise from your post and was curious as to why. 

 

From the voluntarist position: this is the nature of government, left and right alike.  If you set up an institution that can force "customers" to purchase "services" it is inevitable that the so called customers will have very little to no influence over the operation of that institution.  The goal should not be to alter how the power is achieved, but to remove the power altogether.  As long as society creates a category within itself exempt from the laws that govern everyone else, that category will be occupied by the people with the greatest incentive to avoid the consequences of those laws.  In other words, evil people will rush in to commandeer the power of the state in order to shield themselves from any negative consequences were they to operate in that manner outside of the state.  All the corruption in government stems from its legal right to initiate force.  The only way to end corruption is to repudiate this legal right.  

 

Aside from that I see a major problem with this bill.  The proposed method of funding elections is as bad if not worse than the current model.  They intend to supply citizens with a "credit" that can be applied to the candidate of their choice.  This means that some people will be stolen from in order to support a candidate with aspirations opposite their own interests.  It is just another transfer of wealth from the citizenry to the rulers under the guise of honor and compunction.

 

One thing that remains fairly consistent is that every law intended to fix something has unintended consequences that necessitate yet another law. We have reached the point where we are now subject to so many laws that the average person unknowingly commits three felonies a day.  There are now more laws than can be counted when we only need two: don't initiate force, respect property rights.

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I am confused by your bewilderment.  You think the government is corrupt enough to require a bill to end corruption, yet when this corruption manifests itself you are shocked and appalled.  Not that you shouldn't be, but I inferred an element of surprise from your post and was curious as to why. 

 

From the voluntarist position: this is the nature of government, left and right alike.  If you set up an institution that can force "customers" to purchase "services" it is inevitable that the so called customers will have very little to no influence over the operation of that institution.  The goal should not be to alter how the power is achieved, but to remove the power altogether.  As long as society creates a category within itself exempt from the laws that govern everyone else, that category will be occupied by the people with the greatest incentive to avoid the consequences of those laws.  In other words, evil people will rush in to commandeer the power of the state in order to shield themselves from any negative consequences were they to operate in that manner outside of the state.  All the corruption in government stems from its legal right to initiate force.  The only way to end corruption is to repudiate this legal right.  

 

Aside from that I see a major problem with this bill.  The proposed method of funding elections is as bad if not worse than the current model.  They intend to supply citizens with a "credit" that can be applied to the candidate of their choice.  This means that some people will be stolen from in order to support a candidate with aspirations opposite their own interests.  It is just another transfer of wealth from the citizenry to the rulers under the guise of honor and compunction.

 

One thing that remains fairly consistent is that every law intended to fix something has unintended consequences that necessitate yet another law. We have reached the point where we are now subject to so many laws that the average person unknowingly commits three felonies a day.  There are now more laws than can be counted when we only need two: don't initiate force, respect property rights.

 

 

My surprise was merely to engage an audience--we should be angry.  Of course I have little  faith in our government but I don't expect something like this to be swept under the rug as they're trying to do so now.  This event NEEDS to leave a serious scar on our established government.

 

As for the bill itself, I'm no expert.  I don't know if it will help or not and I'm open to debate different points on that position.  But when something like this is passed via the ballot and then striped away in only 2 months...  The outrage alone should be enough to spark positive change.  Sadly, they know this!  This is why it's being pushing through without media attention.

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