Death Metal wrote:Grave_n_idle wrote:
Utter rubbish.
To be fair, Gangland Chicago was very transparently corrupt.
Also, my former hometown of Hialeah, Florida had a mayor who managed to embezzle millions of dollars from the government.
He was convicted for it... but then when it came to the retrial, all the witnesses suddenly and inexplicably refused to testify. I don't think he even served time.
And, despite all this, he somehow got re-elected.
Incidentally, there's at least two businesses in Hialeah that everyone knows are grey markets. The owner of one was actually arrested for knowingly buying and selling stolen merchandise but he got a slap on the wrist.
I'm not saying that it's impossible for a smaller government to be more transparent or easily scrutinised - I'm saying it's utter rubbish to try to claim that smaller governments are necessarily more transparent or more easily scrutinised.