Bribery in the US is definitely NOT a day to day occurrance.<p>That being said, the US is definitely corrupt, but in the US corruption is legal as long as you follow the corruption rules. For example, I can donate $100K to my favourite political candidate right now and then ask them for favours, totally legal, but yet corrupt.<p>We&#x27;re coming up to election season and candidates have already started bragging about who is paying their way (e.g. Wall Street, Koch Brothers, Big Oil, etc) and if anyone doesn&#x27;t think this type of thing is an investment into future political favours then they&#x27;re very naive.<p>PS - While there is corruption in every country, the US&#x27;s electoral finance rules make it particularly bad.