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Baalzamon said:

Bofferbrauer2 said:

That's why in some countries the government officials are not allowed to have any side income whatsoever and the bank accounts are under scrutiny. That way bribing or excessive lobbying is a whole lot more difficult to pull off.

I can think of a pretty easy solution to that. "Hey, pass this stuff for me, and I'll hire you as a board member for $1M a year after you are out of your position.".

That's something that's hard to avoid if there's only one person to influence for this. Thankfully, in most cases they would need to do this to a slew of people (at least one entire chamber that needs to be convinced), and the chances that one of them would tip them off to the authorities are far too great then to risk the legal and image problems that would ensue. Even more so if it's a coalition government and the wish goes against one of the parties in that coalition, even just trying to do that then could risk breaking up the government and new elections incoming, with a chance of losing the election and receiving nothing out of it.