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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]About 10 years ago I was doing work for a federal agency that was asked to help a Congressional office craft the language for a law that most people have never heard of. One day, the draft of the language had two new sentences in it. They seemed innocuous; clarifying scope fuels that would be affected by the law.

Two years later, I learned that a lobbyist had gotten a staffer at the Congressman's office to add those two sentences added to the bill, which became law, which is now saving that industry over a billion dollars per year on their tax bill. It turns out that those two sentences were very specific and very important.

You figure out how to do that, you get the big bucks.[/quote]

So basically a lobbyist is paid to screw the American people?  I feel like this wasn't the framers intent. [/quote]

Neither was high taxes, obozo care, and other ridiculous taxes[/quote]

Love of god, we are paying lower taxes than at most times in our history. I love this tool: http://qz.com/74271/income-tax-rates-since-1913/[/quote]

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