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by marketingPro 6y ago
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If you get caught up in details, you won't be able to understand.
- sitkack 6y agoThose numbers are incredulous!
- curtis3389 6y agoYou should ask yourself: how can a for-profit company like AT&T justify spending $16million on something with $0 ROI?
- asdfadsfgfdda 6y agoFor a company that made $180 billion in revenue, $16 million is only .009%. I'm not denying that lobbying is effective, but there's clearly a limit. There are probably thousands of individual government regulations that each could cost AT&T more than $16 million per year. If lobbying was as powerful as some think, why don't they lobby even more?
- marketingPro 6y ago0 ROI? Are you aware of the total monopoly they have in parts of the country? Without lobbying, competition would have destroyed profitability of telecommunications.
- Rebelgecko 6y agoThose numbers are just what they're spending on staff doing lobbying around the country, right? Most of those don't seem too crazy. Like the AARP is spending $3 million, but how many lobbyists is that actually employing? 10?