Can bribery collapse a nation?

[jayyen]

A politician in my country was able to purchase 275buses in my country for his party in his bid to win the national secretary but the same party is in power and hospitals admit patients without beds.So I ask,will this country continue to exist? Honestly ,am afraid for the future of this world due to the high corrupt activities.

[Hydrogen]

Some political deals involving large sums of fiat could be money laundering schemes in disguise.

A politician could conspire with the private sector to funnel taxpayer funding into an innocuous seeming project(like 275 buses). The politician and bus supplier could split the money. (Perhaps this is similar if not identical to how some shady ICOs scam people out of their investment money.) There are offshore tax havens which hide these types of large, illegal, transactions & hold sums of money in trust (perhaps as leverage against political figures). Profiteering may sometimes be a main motive behind state projects which don't make sense. Detectives say: "follow the money" and the motive will often be revealed. It is sad how often that could be true.

Its also worth noting corruption and bribery become more difficult under a financial system utilizing an open public ledger like bitcoin. Perhaps we have found yet another reason to use bitcoin: cut down on bribery and corruption in politics.

[Wittycoin]

Of course bribery could collapse nation because some business man gives bribe to politicians to be able to have a deal on not paying the right amount of tax which is bigger than the bribe that they will give to the politician. So instead of having big tax to be used for the country, small tax will be paid because of bribery which leads to poverty.

[dams87]

of course the bribery can undermine a nation, such as in my country the level of bribery and corruption so high that any aggrieved country so great that poverty levels became high. to the extent that in Chinese criminal bribery and corruption is considered the No. 1 enemy of the State and the culprit will be in a very heavy penalty jatuhi even to the death penalty.

[jakagintiri]

the dangers of bribery and corruption will be very bad for a country can even tear it down, the negative impact thereof will also be promoted democracy, economy, public welfare State, kestabilitasan State and the security of the State. even in the most country acts of bribery and corruption is the high level of crime and his punishment will be very heavy.

[Naida_BR]

The worst thing of bribery is the fact that people think that it is the correct action the can do because of people with Legitimate power do the same. If bribery goes into the culture of the nation then, the nation will definately collapse after a period of time. Usually this situation happen in countries with significant amounts of people that leave under poverty and not in developed societies.

[lunaelucemauram]

It can and it is seen throughout countries that have corrupt officials or big time criminals  as they can bride their way to justice which leaves their victims and sometimes their countries in shambles as they roam free continuing their reign of terror which is why it is up to the government and its citizens to stand up to uphold their justice.

[webtricks]

A politician in my country was able to purchase 275buses in my country for his party in his bid to win the national secretary but the same party is in power and hospitals admit patients without beds.So I ask,will this country continue to exist? Honestly ,am afraid for the future of this world due to the high corrupt activities.

What you are talking about isn't bribery, it is actually a case of corruption. Don't fear almost every government of every nation is corrupted. Government corruption could hinder the growth of country to some extent but it won't collapse the economy and nation completely. Now coming to bribery. Bribery could eat the nation from within just like parasite. What is nation? A conglomerate of people, right! And who takes bribe, again people/individuals of the nation. So when a part of nation is drowning it rather than building, slowly and gradually whole nation will collapse.

[ylnar123]

A politician in my country was able to purchase 275buses in my country for his party in his bid to win the national secretary but the same party is in power and hospitals admit patients without beds.So I ask,will this country continue to exist? Honestly ,am afraid for the future of this world due to the high corrupt activities.

Yes your country will exist but in the extent of corruption it will crawl in terms of your economy. It will never prosper as to what you dreamed to be a better place to live

[mrcash02]

A country where bribery is a common practice is a country without laws and without examples to be followed. So the common citizen will adopt the same practice on their life too, as the authorities do and it's normal. After some time, several negative effects will impact a society like that.

Mistrust among people, insurgence, conflicts. Also, all the energies of these people will be concentrated on these matters. It's like a war atmosphere, but without any perspective of restoration... What means there isn't place for creativity, development, fraternal feelings. A nation like that is indeed doomed to collapse.

[Okrah]

A politician in my country was able to purchase 275buses in my country for his party in his bid to win the national secretary but the same party is in power and hospitals admit patients without beds.So I ask,will this country continue to exist? Honestly ,am afraid for the future of this world due to the high corrupt activities.

This corrupt politicians are the main reason why There are some other country's until now are very unprogressive and many innocent people suffer poverty. Because of their greediness. They use their power to corrupt all money that came from different government revenues. 

[BitRentXx]

I think it is a country's main problem, bribery, corruption.
very bad impact on a country, like a thorn in the flesh. and it can not be underestimated.

[The Sceptical Chymist]

Look at Mexico and what the government allows the drug cartels to get away with.  If you've ever seen any of the torture videos the Zetas have put out as a warning (I do NOT recommend watching any of them; they're soul-killing), you realize that the only way they get away with this is by having the government and police complicit.  It's absolutely sickening.  And I don't have any hard data about bribery in Mexico, but I've heard it's rampant.  Maybe someone from that country can testify as to whether it is.

And that's just one country.  Politicians are being bribed by powerful lobbyists on a daily basis just one country up in the U.S., and I suspect there's other types of bribery as well.  In my state a former governor went to prison for corruption, in fact.  His signature is on my college degree, since I went to a state school, which is kind of a joke to me.

However, keep in mind that all of this has been going on for centuries and we're probably in the best shape we've been in as far as quality of life goes.  I don't think it's correct to say that "the world is in a downward spiral" or some such statement because of the level of corruption, because I don't think it is.

[EVOS]

Yes, if the corruption continues and more and more, of course the country will experience a very big problem. The corrupt officials should know that if he continues to do so his country will be destroyed and if his country is destroyed he will not be able to prosper. in fact corruption is self-destructive.

[2start]

Can ... the government should give very heavy punishment to corruptors. corruptors must be put to death, because they are harming many people. even they can make people die of corruption. My country has not punished corruptors with any weight, I'm really disappointed.

[darewaller]

A politician in my country was able to purchase 275buses in my country for his party in his bid to win the national secretary but the same party is in power and hospitals admit patients without beds.So I ask,will this country continue to exist? Honestly ,am afraid for the future of this world due to the high corrupt activities.

Of course, bribery can destroy a country. Bribery is part of corruption and it is very bad, anyone caught in such act should be severally punished for it. The same thing is happening in my country and I can tell you that it has destroyed even schools in our country. Students are bribing their teachers to pass their subjects and to pass exams.

Politicians are bribing people to vote for them, well I don’t need to mention that one cause they are campaigning, but it’s getting out of hand when they get to the extent of bribing those that are controls and counts votes just to rig the election or whatever.

[stimliall]

It should be said that corruption is a profit-seeking in human nature, selfish genes are born, and secondly, loopholes in the system, power and lack of supervision, there will be room for power rent-seeking. Corruption undermines the credibility of the government.

[jarojak]

The country will exist but the government may collapse and that stinky politician will be on jail.  But it depends on all of you the people of your country.  Nothing can stop people power, even machine guns.

[bungutko]

Bribery and corruption is not different with the other since these corrupt practices should not be tolerated and should be stopped. In our country, our president is particular with his promise to the people that he will stop corruption and currently the majority of the people in our country had experienced the change in the system. As a citizen in our country, I had a full support in the economic agenda of our president since he has high hopes for our country that one day it will be one of the promising countries in Asia.

[dvorianin02]

A politician in my country was able to purchase 275buses in my country for his party in his bid to win the national secretary but the same party is in power and hospitals admit patients without beds.So I ask,will this country continue to exist? Honestly ,am afraid for the future of this world due to the high corrupt activities.

In my opinion, it is impossible to say whether the whole nation will be able to destroy corruption, but it can definitely worsen the lives of many citizens. It seems to me that in the future corruption will disappear and everything will fall into place.