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Lots of questions over how much firms of this type spend on lobbying, here's an article with some figures. http://watchdog.org/124909/defense-spending/ http://
by bane 10y ago
Lots of questions over how much firms of this type spend on lobbying, here's an article with some figures.
http://watchdog.org/124909/defense-spending/ http://watchdog.org/124909/defense-spending/
As an example Lockheed Martin spent around $14.4m in 2013 and does about $45b/year in revenue.
According to this Palantir spent around $1m in 2015 and gets about $1b/year in revenue.
- tmd83 10y agoLobbying from what I understand is a more polite form of corruption for the most part. I think in the parts of the world where corruption is more direct (bribes) you actually have to pay a lot more to get this kind of returns.
- tmd83 10y agoLobbying from what I understand is a more polite form of corruption for the most part. I think in the parts of the world where corruption is more direct (bribes) you actually have to pay a lot more to get this kind of returns.