Asklemmy

That's a seriously low amount of money for this. Most Presidents will make much more than this out of office in just speaking fees and the normal grifting and graft that happens around them. You'd be endangering your ability to make so much more money in the future if that was your goal.

if i'm president, didn't i almost certainly take such a deal already?

This prompt hurts my brain.

You are the President of the United States.

You are the leader of a nation. Hundreds of millions of people are depending on you.

How many tootsie rolls would it take you to sell out to a rich fuck who has that many tootsie rolls?

Fuck you. I have 4 years. We need to kick our fossil fuel addiction. People deserve privacy. Domestic terrorists need to feel fear again. The government needs to be reminded it serves the people...

Let me drive the bargaining up to 100 million, then let me shove a red hot fire poker up your ass and leave you in a dank cell to die aching.

Then let me live a decent life where I might not feel the excess of being rich, but my diner tabs are paid for, my bar tabs are covered, and I have friends who make sure my home is safe.

Even Senators are worth like fifteen times that in spite of a 200k/year salary.

You assume they’re bribed but I’ll bet it’s both death threats AND bribes.

If I'm the president of the United States, I won't have any need for bribes because former presidents can make a ton of money by selling books, giving lectures, and things like that. A million dollars is not that difficult for a former president to make completely legally, so it will not be life-changing at all. And any amount of money that is significantly larger won't matter anyway, because once you pass the 5-10 million dollars mark, your quality of life won't change much anyway. This is why I would easily turn down even a billion dollar bribe without hesitation.

Even if I were the type of person who doesn't care for ethics and morals, accepting a bribe would be unnecessary and risky.

And for the people saying that this money can do a lot of good, the president of the US has a lot more resources to manipulate to make this bribe a drop in the bucket.

Don't know if you know this, but most bribes most politicians (not the president) take are really small. Like 2k-maybe 20k to fuck over your country and the people you represent. Shit is wild, I thought it would be so much more.

People don't become president because they want to get rich; most of them are already rich, and could make more money if they were working in the private sector. (Although being an elected national politician has great benefits, like pensions, security details, health benefits that are far better than almost anything you'd get privately, etc.) In most cases, they want power. So you're going to need to offer some kind of equivalency.

At a certain point, money becomes raw power, but it's not when it's just a million here or there, not anymore. After all. the president may not have huge amounts of money, but he has the ability to suggest that the DoJ to start investigating you.

I laugh in their face and tell them it takes waaaaaaaaaay more than that to buy me. Like at least a hundred times that.

If i became president then the world is already a lost cause and money is worthless.

I don't think you understand what the position of president can really do. If someone is bribing the president they aren't looking to get a permit or pass a law. They are looking for top classified information like military projects, CIA agents, nuclear infrastructure or nuclear activation codes. No amount of money would change my mind.

Presidents aren't typically bribed. I can only think of 1 in the last 30 years that probably accepted a bribe. That was probably to eat beans in the white house.

You can earn a million dollars a year being on the board of a few companies and doing some speaking engagements as a former president. They also get I believe 200k a year, for the rest of their lives. I'm not sure what amount of money it'd take to make me give up my ethics as the president but it'd definitely need to be at least double digit millions a year, probably in perpetuaty before I was even tempted.

Former presidents/politicians on general normally fall into easy money gigs for whoever they were kind to during their term(s). Goldman Sachs routinely gives six figure single event speaking fees to former and presidential hopefuls. Sometimes they don't even have to show up and give the speech... Bribery is just strait up legal in America and a lot of the time you don't even explicitly have to do anything for them. They're just happy if you don't rock the boat.

No. First your going to be somewhat wealthy to begin. Secondly the pay is fairly good and third it just is not worth the headache.

I am a well of person and there is no amount of money that would interest me to do something that illegal much less immoral. Few wealthy people need to take illegal money when they can generate it legally.

I think the majority of people who would take money in this position would do it out of ego over any other motive.

Yeah nah, the US president makes 400k USD a year + benefits. That should be more than enough for any person.

If not, how much would you counteroffer?

If someone attempted to bribe me I would automatically assume their proposal was a bad idea.

No I would not take that. The rich life of being a 4-to-8-millionaire would not be worth the self disgust and guilt I’d feel over knowing I’d sold out my country.

Only one million. Apparently the IRL answer is come talk to me when your company makes the fortune 500.

I take it. Sign it.

Then tell the American people.

Fuck rich people

I dunno why you're implying this is something outlandish when this already happens. They just call it "campaign donations" if they're in office and "speaking fees" when they're out of it.

If I was president, something went horribly wrong as I'm Canadian

No. If you need to pay for legislation, it is obviously shit.

1m sounds like an amazing deal to buy a president

"Only one million? Man, this economy is really bad, getting someone should do something about it."

Depends what they want me to do. If I'm on board with whatever it is they want me to do I might do it for a lot less. If its something that goes strongly against my beliefs and values though, no amount of money is going to get me to do it

I would ask for 1.25 but I would accept 1 million a year

President makes 400,000 a year for a min of 4 years (1,600,000) and a max of 8 years (3,200,000) so I'd probably ask for 5,000,000 a year for them to call the shots and an extra 1,000,000 for anything I don't think will get me reelected.

4 years of 5mil nets me 20mil and 8 nets me 40mil. I stash that away in a moderate dividend spread and I'll be just fine for the overwhelming majority of my life.

Remember Trump shilling canned beans in the oval office? Doubt he got paid much

I wouldn't take a direct bribe unless it was for something I already wanted or had thought about doing. I would definitely leverage inside information to make money for my family and friends.

365 million is pennies, has to be 10 times that amount.

I'll do it as long as they pay me in XMR

Likely gonna make at least that much from speaking deals and being on think tank boards and the like anyway. Doing your best to improve the nation, thus improving your image, could very easily sharply increase the money you make from those gigs. Even at that level I wouldn't have the slightest clue as to what to do with the money, so I sure as hell wouldn't really want more.

I’d put it to a vote.