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Lobbying expenditure comparisons
An interesting comparison, for use when someone gripes about the "gun lobby" using its dollars to influence Congress. Last year the NRA reported just over $5 million spent on lobbying.
By way of comparison, the Chamber of Commerce spent nearly $95 million, the National Ass'n of Realtors $72 million, and the "Open Society Policy Center" $31 million. Blue Cross spent $23 million, Comcast spent $15 million, and Facebook spent over $12 million.
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The saddest part is that the federal government is not granted any powers that touch on the areas these people lobby for. All that happens today developed from lies from courts.
Once upon a time the People knew that the feds reach was limited to DC, properly obtained forts, etc, and to protecting us from outside issues. Then the lies, cheats, and usurpers got power in Congress, esp in the courts where the greatest travesties occur, and in the bureaucracy.
1905 the courts invented the Doctrine of the Stream of Commerce in order to steal power over manufacturing, something the feds do not legitimately have. Since then the feds with the courts leading the way have stolen just about every power the states are supposed to exercise. Even the Pledge is a lie, written by a socialist who was a defrocked baptist minister who wanted to destroy state sovereignty and create an all powerful utopian central government. And everyone who recites the Pledge causes the Framers to spin in their graves over the lies it contains.
For all the good the NRA has done the five million would have been better spent handing out 5000+ AR's.
In case people don't know, Open Society is Soros.
How much spent lobbying by Planned Parenthood?