It's not as simple as that. What's actually happening is that Congress is extracting campaign contributions from large donors by threatening to push legislatio

It's not as simple as that. What's actually happening is that Congress is extracting campaign contributions from large donors by threatening to push legislation one way or the other. No legislator can get reelected without a multimillion dollar campaign fund. Threatening to tweak the laws one way or the other allows legislators to extract funds from both sides - "Hey, you want this tweak? Pay up! Hey, you don't want this tweak? Pay up!" Depending on who actually pays, the tweak may or may not get made, but the important thing is to revisit the issue often and to revisit the donors with outstretched hands. In some sense, the corporations are as much victims of this scheme as the public is.