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Big Government, Big Corruption

By CFIF Staff
Wednesday, June 03 2009

Here’s one more respect in which the 2008 presidential election failed to offer you a real choice: John McCain and Barack Obama both campaigned on the notion that the root cause of public corruption is political liberty. McCain’s target was the freedom to give money in support of a candidate or cause – a right that he attempted to decapitate with his eponymous campaign finance reform act. Obama’s bugbear was lobbyists, who he (superficially, at least) attempted to keep at arm’s length from his campaign, and who he has subsequently made a show of sequestering from the…

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