Buying Government With Lobbying Money

President Reagan campaigned on the notion that “government is the problem not the solution” and he and the Republican Party have characterized government as the boogie man that is the enemy of business and creator of huge deficits. If you listen to big business today they rant and rave about the sins of big government – particularly taxes and regulations. But I am fond of saying that literally everyone has some part of government that they personally like whether it is the military or the ...