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Re:You elected them to write new laws. They’re letting corpo... by kasey_junk on Thursday April 04, 2019 @06:40PM (#19577811)
Wait. That’s an argument not in evidence either. Why is lobbying bad? The same arguments apply for model legislation. Legislators can’t be experts in everything they legislate so it behooves the people with vested interests & expertise to lobby their positions.
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Re:You elected them to write new laws. They’re letting corpo... by tptacek on Thursday April 04, 2019 @06:46PM (#19577856)
Yeah, like I said, I think the lobbying debate is more complicated than it seems at first blush, but I'll stipulate here that there are patterns of toxic lobbying that are worth worrying about. I just don't think model legislation is an indicator of those patterns.
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