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- locustsloth0
you can't really play the chicken and egg game that we've just played here. Both business and government are culpable for their failures regarding monetary influence in government. There has to be an offer and an acceptance of said offer. Neither party can claim innocence.
And i agree that government officials need to be held accountable for soliciting/accepting these bribes in their various forms. i guess my way of thinking is that if we were able to start from scratch again,say clearing out all the politicians currently in office, and cleared out all regulation, the avarice of corporations and those who run them would then require regulation again.
As you said, corps are 'told', 'expected',(whatever) to make as much money as possible. And once all legal avenues are trodden, they will naturally seek to circumvent laws in the search of more profit.