Hashim says that it would have been cheaper to buy votes, as he alleges other candidates did.
Tax bills have become feeding frenzies for special interests, as well as a way for pols to try to buy votes through manufacturing ever more tax credits.
Non-compliance might lead to an ouster from the EU. This sounds very reasonable and would focus the politicians of countries who love to buy votes with deficit spending.
The new coalition includes some dubious characters: one man denied a visa to America because of alleged drugs connections, another whose henchmen had been caught red-handed with bundles of cash to buy votes.
Politicians are using it to buy votes.
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These forces, who receive no money from Iran and Saudi Arabia to buy votes, and have no private militias to intimidate voters, couldn't compete against the likes of the Dawa party in Iraq, the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt or Fatah and Hamas in the Palestinian Authority.
Protesters accuse Mr Moi of giving away national assets to buy the votes his party will need if his personal empire is to survive the succession.
With all the parties now vying with one another to buy pensioner votes, the notion that the state pension can wither on the vine looks increasingly implausible.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Defense Appropriations Committee Chairman John Murtha are making a determined effort to buy the votes needed to pass legislation similar in its essentials to that just rejected by the Senate.
The lesson is clear: at this stage in American history, the noble ideal of a government that serves all and protects the conditions that give rise to a healthy economy has a hard time prevailing against a political machine that focuses its energies on the single-minded goal of using federal favors to buy enough votes to win.
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This holds dangers, since a president may buy congressmen's votes for a bad scheme by promising not to veto the pork those congressmen care about.
Members get five votes with their monthly subscription and can buy more.
It can also buy time for advocates of serious and genuine spending cuts to widen their following (and gather more votes).
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