| Mr Khan said: It comes back to something we've discussed before, that businesses should be incentivized (though not straight-up forced) to spend money productively, to force them off of cash-hording and, in this case, rent-seeking. |
The best way to incentivize is the standard free-market solutions. You can only disincentivize rent seeking by reducing the scope of Government.
And, that, really, is the fundamental solution to this whole money-in-elections campaign. It is physically impossible to prevent corporate money in politics, and so the only way to tackle it is to make it less worthwhile, that is, reduce the scope of the Government (here's one example - school dinners. If Government wasn't in charge of dictating what goes into a dinner, you would get less money from the food industry flowing into the Government).
