Too often it seems it's blood of the lobbyist who slipped and fell on ice while carrying a suitcase full of benjamins. Your quip is an easy one to make but the

Too often it seems it's blood of the lobbyist who slipped and fell on ice while carrying a suitcase full of benjamins. Your quip is an easy one to make but there is very clearly no shortage of entities who peddle goods and services seeking, often successfully, to influence lawmaker so those goods and services are legally required despite the benefit to society being marginal if even measurable.