Fireside: Lobbying Works, Just Ask Corporations
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Uploaded by TheAlyonaShow on Jan 6, 2012
There are a lot of ways to look at money and our political system and see where the two are intertwined and attached at the hip so openly that it no longer becomes a question of where corruption exists, but more like, where doesn't it? A new study from the University of Kansas by Raquel Alexander and Susan Scholz decided to find one bill passed by Congress, where they could track the return on lobbying investment. This was the American Jobs Creation Act, a bill that gave multinational corporations a one time, obscenely large tax break. And it turns out the return on lobbying for those corporations were 22 thousand percent. So for every dollar that they spent on lobbying, the companies got 220 dollars in tax benefits.
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go get um girl!! hey is that the fireplace channel I don't get that on my cable LOL
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@BeantownJim And I'm sure that which ever Republifundietard you support will be just so. Get over yourself.
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the Awakening begins
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I want to spoon with Alyona by a fire.
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revolution?
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you mean just ask obama.he's bought and paid for like a good lil house negro!
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Do what Cenk does, throw some shit and get into a legit temper tantrum. People don't wanna be lectured like a bunch of goddamn children
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This is more proof that the best return in investment is buying a politician.
BrotherAlpha 1 month ago 6
I thought Lincoln's famous quote was "government of the people, by the people, for the people".
At no point do I remember the word 'right' as a precursor to 'people'.
kalamain 1 month ago 2