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Old Sep 26, 2009 | 8:15 am
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Originally Posted by LuvAirFrance
...I doubt our government pays anything like a bribeproof salary to the people who have to enforce these laws. Cops by the hundreds have destroyed their careers by things like selling evidence they confiscate. Many more never get caught and have accounts somewhere with funds never paid them by the taxpayers.
Ummm...what's a bribe-proof salary? Whatever the government pays these people, a bribe is always icing on the cake. We can never pay people enough to eliminate all corruption, because some people are fundamentally corrupt to begin with. Money won't make them not corrupt.

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