Imagine, for example, that all the fast-food workers unionized and wanted to get the minimum wage raised.
How would they do that when most live outside DC and have to work 1-2 shifts per day to keep their jobs?
They hire professionals -- lobbyists.
Unfortunately any unregulated system benefits the powerful, and we have the heavily abused lobbying system of today.
Imagine, for example, that all the fast-food workers unionized and wanted to get the minimum wage raised.
How would they do that when most live outside DC and have to work 1-2 shifts per day to keep their jobs?
They hire professionals -- lobbyists.
Unfortunately any unregulated system benefits the powerful, and we have the heavily abused lobbying system of today.