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> The soda industry has poured over $67 million into defeating state and local efforts to regulate soft drink sales in the United States since 2009, according t
by tn13 10y ago
> The soda industry has poured over $67 million into defeating state and local efforts to regulate soft drink sales in the United States since 2009, according to the Center for Science in the Public Interest.
That seems like a very tiny amount compared to the profits we are looking at. I mean Let us say if you are focusing on 10 major US cities + DC then it is merely $6M per city. Isn't that too tiny an amount to get anything done ?
- vkou 10y agoPolitical lobbying has some of the highest RoI a business can hope for. At a municipal level, a few hundred dollars can be sufficient to turn a councilor, get access to edit legislature as it is written, or just get your proposed legislature accepted as verbatim. If the local media doesn't make a stink of it, you'll get away with it, too.
- kevin_thibedeau 10y ago> get access to edit legislature as it is written In the US most legislation is already written by the lobbyists themselves.
- vkou 10y ago... Because they have access. Through lobbying. It's not a state of nature.