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I'd love it if we outlawed lobbyists, but that'll never happen. It's a clear-cut 1st Amendment issue.

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.



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