Buying Government With Lobbying Money
Business decided in the late 1970s that if they were going to find ways to increase profits and decrease their costs, they had to buy access to Congress—with lobbying money. Sector by sector, they began to build up large funds to pay lobbyists to get the crucial votes they needed. In 1975, only 175 corporations had lobbyists, but by 2020, they had more than 12,000 lobbyists who were dispensing more than $3 billion per year on lobbying. This new strategy to “buy Congressional Votes” has been spectacularly successful. It would ultimately lower their taxes and get rid of New Deal laws and regulations.
President Reagan campaigned on the notion that “government is the problem not the solution.” He ...
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