# Which country (culture, empire, etc.) has the most effective anti-corruption laws? **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-country-culture-empire-etc-has-the-most-effective-anti-corruption-laws/955022 **Category:** Great Debates **Created:** [November 27, 2021, 10:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-country-culture-empire-etc-has-the-most-effective-anti-corruption-laws/955022 "2021-11-27T10:43:10Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Page:** 2
### Author: ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ) #### Post date: [December 10, 2021, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-country-culture-empire-etc-has-the-most-effective-anti-corruption-laws/955022/21 "2021-12-10T14:41:34Z")
> [@Mr.Duality](#): > > A quibble: In the US candidates are allowed (after they leave office) to keep campaign contributions which went unspent. Given this situation, spending limits lose some of their effectiveness. You can’t just cash them out and put them in your personal account. You have to use the funds to pay off debt, roll the funds into a new campaign, donate them to another campaign or donate them to charity. Even at the local level (city council) I had to do this. Granted, you can use the funds to pay off debt to your own company or something (which your company would have written off or forgiven had you not had the funds to pay it), but even that all has to be declared in your campaign finance report. I’m sure there’s skeevy ways of using the excess money, but the money doesn’t simply become the candidate’s. > **[When presidential campaigns end, what happens to the leftover money?](https://theconversation.com/when-presidential-campaigns-end-what-happens-to-the-leftover-money-130042)** > > When political campaigns end, candidates often are left with a fair amount of money. They have a lot of options about how to spend it. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-country-culture-empire-etc-has-the-most-effective-anti-corruption-laws/955022.md?page=1)