Politics

This is why corporations lobby and donate to politicians.

"Between 2007 and 2012, 200 of America’s most politically active corporations spent a combined $5.8 billion on federal lobbying and campaign contributions. A year-long analysis by the Sunlight Foundation suggests, however, that what they gave pales compared to what those same corporations got: $4.4 trillion in federal business and support."

Here's what that means.

"“That translates to a 75,900% rate of return,” says Jim."

This is why we have a system of crony socialism, also called economic fascism. Government as we know it, coercive government, the state, exists for the sole purpose of allowing rich people to legally steal money from everybody else.

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