• bobs_monkey@lemm.ee
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    So that means that I can engage in a a little tax evasion, as a treat, right?

    On a serious note, from the article:

    the law makes it a very serious crime, punishable by up to 15 years in prison, for a federal official to accept a bribe

    Can we start actually enforcing this please?

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      Define bribe and you’ll start to see where enforcing this becomes a problem. Especially with legalized corruption in the form of lobbying and ‘gifts’.

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      Legislators, executives, and jurists aren’t officials in the sense you mean. They are referring to government employees, who can still receive every joyful punishment a prosecutor can dream of.

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        Well, perhaps the wording should be amended to encompass all public employees. But that would require the law be rewritten by the people that benefit from it, so, yeah.