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kilativ — 27.06.2021 The 55 corporations that paid no federal corporate income tax in 2020 spent nearly $450 million on lobbying and campaign contributions over the last three election cycles. This total includes $408 million in lobbying and $42 million in campaign contributions.FedEx spent the most of any company ($71 million) followed by Charter Communications ($64 million), American Electric Power ($42 million), Duke Energy ($37 million) and Textron ($22 million).
On average each year, these companies together have sent 526 lobbyists to influence the federal government.
The companies contributed $4 million to the four national party committees and another $650,000 to the Senate Leadership Fund, a Republican super PAC.
Of the top 25 recipients of money from the corporations that paid zero in taxes in Congress, 20 are Republicans. Each of these recipients voted for the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017, which lowered the corporate tax rate.
Many of the companies also received huge rebates from the federal government in 2020. Four of the top 10 political spenders in 2020 could use their leftover rebate money to cover political spending costs for at least the next half century.
Отсюда
55 американских компаний, что заплатили в 2020 НОЛЬ налогов, потратили 450 миллионов долларов на подкуп политиков. 208 миллионов на лоббирование и 42 миллиона на избирательные компании, в основном республиканские (но не только). Как результат, все те, кому были переданы деньги голосовали за закон, который снизил налоги на корпорации. Если ЭТО не коррупция - причем легализованная, настырная и наглая (да, мы охренели и чо вы нам сделаете?) - то что тогда коррупция? А вы дальше мусольте кооператив "Озеро".
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