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Why lobbyists have influence (nutshell version)

January 7, 2012 by B. Daniel Blatt

Increasing government power gives more influence to the politically connected, which is often whoever can hire up the most ex-Senators and cabinet members-turned lobbyists.

—Timothy P. Carney
(emphasis added)

Filed Under: Big Government Follies

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  1. ILoveCapitalism says

    January 8, 2012 at 12:00 pm - January 8, 2012

    We should have total separation of Business and State… just as we do Church and State.

    Corporations get involved in politics as a self-defense measure. If government were small, if government devoted its resources to the impartial enforcement of criminal law (including laws against fraud) and nothing more, then corporations would have no need of lobbying, and would be forced to fight each other in the marketplace, to the benefit of consumers.

  2. Rattlesnake says

    January 8, 2012 at 6:13 pm - January 8, 2012

    Corporations get involved in politics as a self-defense measure. If government were small, if government devoted its resources to the impartial enforcement of criminal law (including laws against fraud) and nothing more, then corporations would have no need of lobbying, and would be forced to fight each other in the marketplace, to the benefit of consumers.

    +1

  3. Richard Bell says

    January 8, 2012 at 6:37 pm - January 8, 2012

    How about politicians who lie about possible future legislation just to shake down business?

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