Grim's Hal on Secrecyl: "In cases where corruption is secret -- and here I am not asserting that there is any secret corruption going on in the government, because of course I do not know -- the People can't perform their duty as citizens. They have no choice. They are prevented from being moral actors, because they are given no knowledge. To the degree that the government operates secretly, it ceases to be a government of the People."

A fine post about corruption in government, being lessened perhaps if folk know.

The real problem is that voters are addicted to "free money -- OPM" Other People's Money. And they know that they can only get THEIR free money if they accept a system that gives out free money, even if that means other folk get theirs.