“ There was a study recently in which thirty of the largest companies in the United States are now spending more on lobbying than they pay in Federal taxes.
Elizabeth Warren on the Daily Show tonight (via kateoplis)
how’s this possible?? how’s it possible that companies so burderned by taxation could actually outspend their tax bill in lobbying.
because they make so much fucking money off the government teet they could have a tax rate cracking 90% and they’d still be swimming in it. b.p. made over 20 billion in 2010—the year they shit in the gulf of mexico. but money’s speech and lobbying’s the american way.
—cbg
