The money connection to lobbying is really really indirect. The government pays the company. The company pays the employees. The employees donate to a PAC. (fo

The money connection to lobbying is really really indirect. The government pays the company. The company pays the employees. The employees donate to a PAC. (for every big defense contractor there exists a friendly PAC) The PAC does lobbying. Employees aren't required to participate. There is no punishment for an employee who instead donates to an opposing PAC or just spends their extra money on trips to baseball games. It's not half as bad as a public sector union doing lobbying with involuntary dues. If a defense contractor employee can't donate to that PAC, what about every other PAC? It is political expression. Would you ban political expression for all people who in some indirect way get paid by the government?