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Maybe spending billions of dollars lobbying should be illegal

• ttyprintk 3y ago
  It’s not that lobbying is a major slice of $14B, it’s that they actually spend only $3m and it’s effective: https://www.opensecrets.org/federal-lobbying/clients/summary?cycle=2021&id=D000026667 https://www.opensecrets.org/federal-lobbying/clients/summary...
  • kemotep 3y ago
    Notoriously there is also a large contingent of anti-tax politicians and citizens that oppose making paying taxes easier. Their reasoning being the more friction there is the more likely that you will pay attention to how much you are being taxed and support their policies that cut taxes.
    • recursive 3y ago
      Not working. I'd pay more for a convenient tax system.