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Re:You elected them to write new laws. They’re letting corpo... by karmelapple on Thursday April 04, 2019 @06:14PM (#19577640)
Funding the opposition is great. However, if there are profits to be made if a law is passed, and zero profits to be made if a law is not passed, there will likely be no companies all that interested in helping ensure the stoppage of the law.

And people who may care very much about stopping it may work at a company who wants a law passed. The people who work at the company have much less spending money than the company itself to devote to promoting such legislation.

Re:You elected them to write new laws. They’re letting corpo... by tptacek on Thursday April 04, 2019 @06:19PM (#19577669)
Who's to say model legislation needs to be funded solely by corporations? SIX has no corporate sponsors.
Re:You elected them to write new laws. They’re letting corpo... by deogeo on Thursday April 04, 2019 @06:23PM (#19577697)
That's the great part about funding legislation - whoever has more money to spend, wins. And guess who has the most spending money in the US.
Re:You elected them to write new laws. They’re letting corpo... by darawk on Thursday April 04, 2019 @06:27PM (#19577724)
No...whoever has money to spend just gets model legislation written. It still has to be passed.
Re:You elected them to write new laws. They’re letting corpo... by deogeo on Thursday April 04, 2019 @06:37PM (#19577788)
Funding legislation includes more than just writing it.
Re:You elected them to write new laws. They’re letting corpo... by lostdog on Thursday April 04, 2019 @06:47PM (#19577859)
And the fact that model legislation gets passed more and more frequently shows that there is a problem.
Re:You elected them to write new laws. They’re letting corpo... by darawk on Thursday April 04, 2019 @07:00PM (#19577952)
How so?