Voters support a corporate lobbyist tax by a 59-22 margin, while about 1 in 5 voters remain undecided. According to https://www.dataforprogress.org/blog/ the sentiment crosses voter party lines.
What is needed are politicians who would advance and support such a tax. We have them, and they are called "progressives" as opposed to the rest, who are called troglodytes.
True and decent progressives fit the job description of those who should and would make government decisions about curbing lobbying. With too common a career path, the Daschle path, being first to win office as a politician in Congress to build a power base and full rolodex and then to retire from public duty to take on a lobbying wealth bonanza being popular among politicians, (even if not a beloved practice to voters); then having enough of those "progressives" in office who eschew such a fiscally rewarding career path is a goal.
If the power to tax truly is the power to destroy, the term creative destruction comes to mind.
Concentrated capital enjoys lobbying possibilities but has no lock on the practice being innate to human nature, or necessarily eternal. That is so, even though concentrated capital's power is vast. While taxing lobbyists has not seized the day, yet, the test is whether concentrated capital, in government and media, can stall taxing the perps indefinitely.
Or will Bernie become President, when much current nonsense would stop?
