I find myself agreeing with the caping of donations at $30000 but also the public register of lobbyists is a fantastic addition. Get big influence out of our politics!
I find myself agreeing with the caping of donations at $30000 but also the public register of lobbyists is a fantastic addition. Get big influence out of our politics!
9 Comments
Hal@piefed.nz · 11 pts · 10h
I'd be very curious to see how orgs like the Taxpayer's Union or Hobson's Pledge fit in. They are campaigning for our political parties but are not those parties, most of their work is not in actual campaigning but in sewing seeds of doubt or pushing certain views among the public.
I guess what the Greens are proposing is a lot better than the current state, especially the standdown between being an MP/minister and being allowed to join a lobby group.
MadPsyentist@lemmy.nz · 7 pts · 9h
Yeah that MP to Lobbyist pathway is a joke.
ooo_shiny@lemmy.nz · 5 pts · 5h
This hits squarely in my ‘pro-democracy’ sweet spot. Good stuff.
9tr6gyp3@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 8h
Political dontations are the worst. Even worse than donations imo.
JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 8h
Billionaires: roight. Ill just make a thousand donations from each of my shell companies, then.
Seriously: its a start, but how does this stop the mega donors from doing just that?
deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz · 7 pts · 7h
In the finance industry we call this KYC Know Your Customer, specifically the "beneficial owner".
You tie the funds back to the top-most owner in any structure.
You're also supposed to vett that the funds have providence for AML (Anti-Money Laundering).
If that industry can do it, so can parliamentary services or whomever would enforce it.
MadPsyentist@lemmy.nz · 3 pts · 6h
Didnt a bunch of these rules come in world wide due to the Panama Papers leak? you hear almost nothing about it but a whole bunch of laws about KYC came in from the panama papers investigation, its one of the reasons why trusts got a big nerf.
there is a whole bunch to dig into but this look like a good start https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panama_Papers
deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz · 3 pts · 3h
It was around the same time. I'm not sure if there was a causal relationship.
MadPsyentist@lemmy.nz · 4 pts · 6h
ahh... by the second part of the head line?