Extortion
by Peter Schweizer · first published 2013
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"Conventional wisdom holds that Washington is broken because outside special interests bribe politicians. The reverse is true: politicians have developed a new set of brass-knuckle legislative tactics designed to extort wealthy industries and donors into forking over big donations... Until now, Washington's extortion racket has gone unreported. Yet thanks to an extraordinary effort by Peter Schweizer and the investigative research staff of the Government Accountability Institute, we now know the racketeering methods and the players who profit from them." -- Dust jacket. Argues that politician
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It's worth asking, "who's corruption"? I highly recommend the book "Extortion: How Politicians Extract Your Money, Buy Votes, and Line Their Own Pockets" ( http://www.amazon.com/Extortion-Politicians-Extract-Money-Po...), which along with many things I've observed for a long time…
on “Google, once disdainful of lobbying, now a master of Washington influence” ↗This book goes into quite some detail about how our tax code and it's frequent changes, or threats to do so, are a finely tuned instrument of Extortion: How Politicians Extract Your Money, Buy Votes, and Line Their Own Pockets http://www.amazon.com/Extortion-Politicians-Extract-Money-Po... Quite a bit more, as well. Did you know that a Congresscritter…
on “US seizing tax refunds of children over parents' debt” ↗…corporations down. A whole lot of "gridlock" is merely milking proposals that'll help or hurt various companies and sectors, and collecting contributions to continue preventing the bad or pushing for the good. Extortion: How Politicians Extract Your Money, Buy Votes, and Line Their Own Pockets is (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0544103343) a really good book on the subject, taught me things I didn't know despite watching…
on “Larry Lessig: I'm All In” ↗…http://www.amazon.com/Three-Felonies-Day-Target-Innocent/dp/... Improvements are just not going to happen prior to the downfall of our current ruling class; a window into how this currently works is the excellent Extortion, How Politicians Extract Your Money, Buy Votes, and Line Their Own Pockets http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0544103343, or as Ayn Rand put it in Atlas Shrugged: Did you really think that we want those…
on “CEO” ↗A very good book length treatment of this can be found in Peter Schweizer's Extortion: How Politicians Extract Your Money, Buy Votes, and Line Their Own Pockets https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0544103343/ And it just so happens that his latest book covers the family angle: Secret Empires:…
on “Amazon Lobbied More Government Entities Than Any Other US Company Last Year” ↗…sort of "too small to extort"; there are some very good reasons Dodd-Frank enshrined the "too big to fail" institution concept. I've only read some of the material on that bill in http://www.amazon.com/Extortion-Politicians-Extract-Money-Po... but I bet when I get to the details that's part of the reasons. Jailing is only something ambitious DAs and Attorney Generals want to do; milking firms is where the money…
on “Banks seek breathing room with controversial credit relief trades” ↗