Forum Post: We need laws that throw corrupt politicians and those who purchase them in jail!

We need laws that throw corrupt politicians and those who purchase them in jail!

"Hey Rick (Perry) I need you to do me a favor and give my company about 150,000,000 out of the Texas Technology fund." Perry gets out his calculator and then replies "That will cost you about 150,000.00 in campaign contributions." Corporate Criminal replies "No problem give me the routing number and your bank account number and I will wire you the money immediately."

Next call, "Hey Ricky my plant is not going to meet its clean air standards. It would cost me about 10,000,000 million to meet these standards. If that happens I would only make a 3,000,000 dollar bonus instead of 10,000,000 million. So what's your price to help me out with this." Rick gets out his calculator and says, well I'll have to pay my buddy who runs the Texas Clean Air Commission and then there is my presidential campaign fun, how about if we make it an even 1.5 million. Corporate CEO "No problem I'll get my accountant right on it!"

This is the kind of political/corporate corruption we need to rid ourselves of. There are Democrats that are just as guilty so don't turn this into a Democrat versus Republic issue. I don't think anyone should have a problem with this, except for the 1% who should go to jail for doing this.