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Probably not so easily against a set of lobbies that includes some of the most powerful there are: agriculture, food and health insurance.
by guerrilla 5y ago
Probably not so easily against a set of lobbies that includes some of the most powerful there are: agriculture, food and health insurance.
- ogma 5y agoWe handle this by incarcerating all of the lobbyists, politicians, and other traitors engaged in regulatory capture, who have compromised our public health and national security. Is this your argument for everything? There are lobbyists, therefore let's do nothing? I hope you support ending this sort of legalized corruption in general then.
- bpodgursky 5y agoYou don't need lobbyists to explain this. Even in super-progressive SF and Seattle, there's immense popular resistance to a sugar tax on bottled drinks. The people like sugar, and the people are democracy.