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Old 10-26-2007, 09:15 PM   #228 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by filtherton
I thought that corporations gain influence through lobbyists and campaign donations. How do they get powerful through taxes and spending?
You decrease the role of the federal government, and you decrease the likelihood that the people in office have the power to provide a benefit to the corporations that would have "donated" to them. If a politicians hands are sufficiently tied, he doesn't have the power to give corporate welfare.
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