08-28-2022, 09:25 PM
Tiangou wrote:
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Big pharma fighting over our tax dollars. Makes sense
Why do you hate Capitalism?
When a group of companies spend $3 million per day "lobbying" those who make the laws, that's not capitalism.
How is that contrary to Capitalism??
Anywhere outside of Washington DC the action is called bribery, and is a crime
Legal bribery:
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme...-rcna26466
In a 6-3 ruling, the court said the law, adopted in 2002, was a violation of political candidates’ free expression, applying long-standing rulings that said that because money buys the ability to spread political messages, limits on expenditures implicate the First Amendment.
...Justices Stephen Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan dissented... when political candidates lend money to their campaigns and then solicit donations to get repaid, the contributors know the money they’re giving goes directly to the candidates’ pockets.
“The politician is happy; the donors are happy. The only loser is the public. It inevitably suffers from government corruption...”
Someone is putting up the money for all of these $100 million book deals