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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Re:You elected them to write new laws. They’re letting corpo... by darawk on Thursday April 04, 2019 @07:00PM (#19577952)
How so?
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