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Thanks.

• amorphid 11y ago
  Also, lobbying helps address issues where laws haven't kept up with technology. A friend of mine is a lobbyist for an energy company. During a power outage, they will do robo-calling to customers to survey whether power is out in a given area. Those robo-calls were (or still are?) illegal, because they violated telemarketing laws. They lobbied to update the legislation for the "do you have power?" robo-calls.
  • tyingq 11y ago
    Amazon would probably categorize their push for all online retailers to collect and pay sales tax in all 50 US states as an example of this. Funny thing, though, is that their position was the exact opposite back when there were many states that they had no presence in, and were able to not charge sales tax in those states.