Carefull. It's the chicken and the egg. Left alone with no influence or ability (percieved or real) to influence, corporations would be far less corruptable. But, alas, we have a government that has injected itself into the corporate battlefield as a regulatory necessity. Suddenly, there is motive to help the government pick the winners and losers by certain subtleties modified in certain laws. A company with $50B in revenues doesn't mind investing $2M in some special marketing to a politician. Make the regulatory process unmolestable, and the corruption mostly goes away.
How might we make it unmolestable? Let them police each other and come up with standardized tests and reports. Then let the consumers pick winners and losers.
I’ve wrestled with this for many years. I happen to wholly disagree with the Supreme Court that corporations are people. I am for term limits, vastly shorter campaign seasons and vastly less government/corporate nuzzling.
The feds needs to make laws to govern people and businesses. Businesses need to have a say in those laws, yes, but they shouldn’t MAKE those laws. let alone BUY those laws. Internal policing would work, but it will still become gray with collusion and whatnot. We, the schlubs, need to have some protection against not only government, but from gigantor corporations as well.
I like your idea - but how do we achieve true transparency? I think it’s doable - with REAL penalties for malfeasance. Even if those penalties hurt the consumers, after 50 years of pain, maybe we can move forward with this crap.