Wouldn't selling votes simply give more power to people with money? Why in the world would you want your country ruled directly (vote auctioning) *and* indirectly (lobbying) by Money? I would think that would strike a nerve along the same lines of the threat of the Crown returning.
In Canada, you aren't even allowed to think about challenging universal health care, because people feel so passionately about it here (as in, passionate to protect it). Poor people would gladly sell their place in the queue (I'd buy better appointment bookings if there were a system available), but we won't let them.
Wow - what happened to you people?
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Wouldn't selling votes simply give more power to people with money? Why in the world would you want your country ruled directly (vote auctioning) *and* indirectly (lobbying) by Money? I would think that would strike a nerve along the same lines of the threat of the Crown returning. In Canada, you aren't even allowed to think about challenging universal health care, because people feel so passionately about it here (as in, passionate to protect it). Poor people would gladly sell their place in the queue (I'd buy better appointment bookings if there were a system available), but we won't let them. Wow - what happened to you people?