@ican711nm,
ican711nm wrote:Over the last 100 years government has become increasingly corrupt. Much of that correuption has been sponsored by those corrupt businesses. In the last three years Democrats have been recipients of most of Wall Street's donations.
It is called "PROTECTION MONEY," ican. Government has so much power these days over what businesses do, that they believe that they have to pay off the politicians in order to protect themselves from more and more predatory government actions upon them - in the way of more and more regulations, increased taxation, unfair favoritism directed to their competition, etc. If government would retreat to its original intended purpose and stay out of stuff it has no business being involved in, the need to fund lobbying and payoffs to campaign coffers would be greatly reduced. For example, one reason lobbyists are so necessary is because without them educating the stupid politicians that go to Washington, the stupid politicians would enact even more unwise and even more ridiculous regulations than they already have and are doing.
Of course in addition to protection money, there are also corrupt businesses that will curry favor of politicians to get government contract work and so forth. This goes on all the time, example Harry Reid and his buddies in business in Nevada.
