Imagine an institution of higher learning benefiting from the largesse of politicians who share their views. It’s unprecedented. https://twitter.com/lachlan/status/1111228860778074112 …
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This sounds like a comparatively efficient form of corruption with minimal deadweight loss. Jet fuel has a market price, so the bribe is just the margin. Much less opaque than the grant system, where you never know whether you’re getting like ten cents on the dollar or a penny.
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Replying to @ByrneHobart
I'd bet against corruption at 100:1 odds, unless one means "The military is tighter with conservative Christians than whatever our baseline would be for that." Specific subprediction: the affiliated fuel business filed qualification paperwork and began their bid before election.
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(If one wanted a very contrarian take, one might describe the Pentagon's legendary slowness as itself being an anti-corruption mechanism. Since it's physically impossible to award money within months of an election, contractors have to be generically, acceptably connected.)
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I once saw a study claiming that contractors who donated to winning congressmen got more deals, but that’s confounded by general political savvy.
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What’s a normal lag for a contract like that?
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Depends on whether they'd done it before and were already in the system. If you assume a cold start on election night, the timeline is ludicrous.
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