Corruption means there won’t be speed bumps, at least for certain legislation that appeals to those doing the corrupting. That’s a bit part of the problem here.
They're not corrupt because of lobbying, they are already corrupt and take advantage of lobbying.
There are things that could be done but the people in office making the laws are not interested, and the population is too apathetic/indoctrinated to make the correct choices.
The problem is that the legislation above does nothing against the kind of corruption you mentioned, because it is well supported in US legislation. For example, lobbying is nothing more than legalized corruption.
You can't actually use the word "corrupt" to describe what the legislators are doing, that's painting them unfairly.
All they're doing is lining their own pockets with millions from TurboTax et. al to make sure laws are favourable for those big companies. But because it's perfectly legal, and there are no thugs with guns or drugs or "bad members of society", it's absolutely not corruption.
And actually, corruption is not really much of a concern right now, it's more of radical incompetence on all levels. At this point, no amount of bribery will help you go smoother.
We (Americans) have normalized, often explicitly legalized, quite a lot of corrupt behavior in various positions of power.[1] We then look at how comparatively little illegal corruption there is, and the official line is that everything is fine, nothing to see here.
1. Officials failing to accurately provide financial disclosures result in a consequence of having to fill it out again. Members of Congress can legally practice insider trading, and often do. And even when there's no revolving door, post-facto bribes in the form of cushy sinecures are accepted. Money as protected speech. Etc.
I don't think corruption is the worry so much here, it's the erosion of the rule of law when regulators and courts are seen to bask in the popularity of enforcing the law against certain high-profile targets, especially when the perception is that this target has been particularly zealously pursued, instead of dryly and boringly applying the law equally to everybody without passion.
That erosion is not corruption on its own, but can lead to it.
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