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Libertarians Supporting More Governmental Regulation?

This post at Kipesquire provides a remarkable example of bribery that can never be proven in a court of law.  Here's the summary: The government entered into a contract with a contractor that would cause the government to lose money.  The contractor gave huge campaign contributions to the three government officials who gave them the contract. Absent corruption, why in the world would a government official enter into a losing contract?  People are incompetent, but not that incompetent.  It's clear what went down. Yet there is no way that a federal bribery case could be made.  When you give a federal official an envelope full of money, bribery is easy to establish.  When you give a federal official a campaign contribution, it's almost impossible to prove bribery...continue to full post

Full post as published by Crime & Federalism on April 17, 2008 (boomark / email).