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We are quickly becoming India. Corruption as the status quo.

Our corruption doesn't require average citizens to pay bribes in order to get basic bureaucrats to do their jobs (simple things like obtaining a birth certificate) or to avoid arrest for a simple traffic stop. It's nearly all at the high level.

Whether that's better or worse is worth discussing.

Well no need to pay bribes when the police can forcibly take your money, and now even suck it right from your bank account.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11862582

Of course, you can get it back, but it's up to you to prove that it's your money that they've just confiscated from you. Hope you don't need to hire a lawyer to get your money back since now you have no money.

Which doesn't quite answer the point the person one level above made about high vs low level corruption...

In the DC the name of the game is power. I think corruption is not the right word. More like court scheming.

The only thing secret about their service is how stupid these people really are. It's unfortunate that instead of taking healthy criticism from another US citizen, they instead chose to be vindictively juvenile. Real men don't hide from the truth. Not surprised, unfortunately.

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