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Politicians shouldn't be allowed to own private property. Only the people that really, really want to see a better future for their country will get involved in politics. This isn't my idea by the way, it's Plato's.

Right now the people entering politics are people who just want more money. They don't care about anything or anyone else. The sooner Americans realize this the better off we'll be.

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I'd rather politicians have no privacy as long as they are in office, i.e. all their communications, acquisitions, etc. should be hard-monitored, automatically sent to an anti-corruption office and perhaps public. The loss would be temporary and harder to skim around, imo it's just better incentives all around.

But I'd definitely be okay with the property part if removing privacy isn't feasible :)

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