City government is the most corrupt form of US government

[Dan Druff]

Here is yet another example. The mayor of Trenton, NJ -- the state capital -- has been arrested for corruption.

http://www.cnn.com/2012/09/10/justic...ted/index.html

I would love to say that this is an isolated incident, but it's not.

Bribery is extremely common in city government. If your city has inexplicably changed to another company for certain utilities (and ignores complaints), or if they seem married to some particular developer to do all of their work, there is almost surely bribery involved.

The problem is that, unlike at the state and federal level, there aren't enough people watching what's going on with city politics and the expenditures of city money, so this corruption runs rampant.

Then, of course, there are large city governments like Chicago where corruption is a way of life, and people have just come to accept it.

[Fergie72]

Las Vegas has to be a close second to Chicago in this regard.

The Federal government is pretty darn corrupt too. Some of it is even legal, like congressmen being able to actively engage in insider trading. I used to look down on the Russians for how corrupt their government is, now I realize we arent much better.