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The Best "Democracy" Money Can Buy: For Every
Dollar Spent Influencing US Politics, Corporations Get $760 Back

Tyler Durden - zerohedge.com.br 17/3/15

The first time we read the recent
analysis by the Sunlight Foundation in which it combed
through 14 million corporate records, including data on campaign
contributions, lobbying expenditures, federal budget allocations
and spending, in order to determine the "rate of return" on
lobbying and spending to buy political goodwill, we were left
speechless.
To be sure, we
had previously shown that when it comes to the rate of
return on lobbying, the rates were simply staggering, and ranged
anywhere between 5,900% for oil subsidies, to 22,000% for
multinational tax breaks and even higher for America's legal
drug dealers.
But nothing could prepare us for this.
According to the foundation's analysis, between 2007 and 2012,
200 of America’s most politically active corporations
spent a combined $5.8 billion (with a B) on federal
lobbying and campaign contributions. What they gave
pales compared to what those same corporations got: $4.4
trillion (with a T) in federal business and support.
Putting that in context, the $4.4 trillion total
represents two-thirds of the $6.5 trillion that individual
taxpayers paid into the federal treasury. Said
otherwise, by "spending: a paltry $6 billion to bribe the US
government, or just a little more than what GM will spend on
stock buybacks alone, US corporations are getting the direct
benefit of two-thirds of US taxpayers' labor!
And here is the visual representation of this stunning finding:
for every dollar spent on influencing politics, the nation’s
most politically active corporations received $760 from the
government.
Which translates into an Internal Rate Of Return of, hold on to
your hats folks, 75,900%!

Like we said, speechless.

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Some more details from the Foundations' must read report:
Do political donors get something in return for what
they give?
Four years ago, the U.S. Supreme Court suggested the answer
to that question was no. Corporate spending to influence
federal elections would not “give rise to corruption or the
appearance of corruption,” the majority wrote in the landmark
Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission decision.
Sunlight decided to test that premise by examining influence
and its potential results on federal decision makers over six
years, three before the 2010 Citizens United decision and
three after.
We focused on the records of 200 for-profit corporations, all
of which had active political action committees and lobbyists
in the 2008, 2010 and 2012 election cycles — and were among
the top donors to campaign committees registered with the
Federal Election Commission. Their investment in politics was
enormous. There were 20,500 paying lobbying clients over the
six years we examined; the 200 companies we tracked
accounted for a whopping 26 percent of the total spent.
On average, their PACs, employees and their family members
made campaign contributions to 144 sitting members of Congress
each cycle.
After examining 14 million records, including data on
campaign contributions, lobbying expenditures, federal budget
allocations and spending, we found that, on average, for every
dollar spent on influencing politics, the nation’s most
politically active corporations received $760 from the
government. The $4.4 trillion total represents two-thirds of
the $6.5 trillion that individual taxpayers paid into the
federal treasury.
Welcome to the world of "Fixed Fortunes," a seemingly closed
universe where the most persistent and savvy political players
not so mysteriously have the ability to attract federal
dollars regardless of who is running Washington.
It's not a "Republican" issue, nor a "Democrat" issue - it is a
"Political" issue. Worse, it is a "Democracy" issue. Or lack
thereof.
During the six years we studied, newly elected Democratic
majorities took control in the House and Senate. Two years
later, the White House shifted from Republican to Democratic
control, and two years after that the GOP came back to take
the House. The collapse of the housing bubble in 2007 led to
massive bailout efforts by the Treasury Department and the
Federal Reserve Board, two massive stimulus bills and the loss
of more than eight million jobs. Congress passed laws that
overhauled health care insurance and financial industry
regulation. Troops surged in Afghanistan and withdrew from
Iraq. There were 16 separate “continuing resolutions” to fund
the government, a debt ceiling standoff that caused a
downgrade in the nation’s credit rating and a “super
committee” to wrestle with the federal budget. As
middle class Americans lost ground, the Fixed Fortune 200
got what they needed.
What they needed included loans that helped automakers and
banks survive the recent recession while many homeowners went
under. It included full funding and expansion of federal
programs started in the 1930s that, year after year, decade
after decade, help prop up prices for agribusinesses and
secure trade deals for our biggest manufacturers. It included
budget busting emergency measures that funneled extra dollars
to everything from defense contractors to public utility
companies to financial industry giants. The record
suggests that the money corporations spend on political
campaigns and Washington lobbying firms is not an unwise
investment.
With a 75,900% IRR, we tend to agree.
The Fixed Fortune 200 come from a wide range of industries.
There are a host of familiar names among them, like Ford Motor
Company, McDonald’s and Bank of America, as well as some less
famous, like MacAndrews & Forbes, the Carlyle Group and
Cerberus Capital Management. (For the complete list, including
what they gave and what they got, click here.) There are
retailers and investment banks, construction and
telecommunications firms, health insurers and gun makers,
entertainment conglomerates, banks and pharmaceutical
manufacturers, among others.
Overall, the Fixed Fortune 200’s PACs, employees and their
family members gave $597 million to political committees and
disclosed spending $5.2 billion on lobbying. They make this
enormous investment in politics in large part because their
businesses are inextricably entwined with government decisions
— including spending decisions.
In short, government is the best "business partner" money can
buy:
For example, the federal government issued contracts to
purchase goods and services that totaled a little more that $3
trillion during the period; companies among the top 200
corporate political givers won $1 trillion of that, a third of
the total. The Treasury Department managed $410
billion in loans and other assistance issued under the
Troubled Asset Relief Program, created by Congress to cope
with the 2008 financial crisis; of that amount, $298
million, about 73 percent, went to 16 firms among the Fixed
Fortune 200. When the Federal Reserve took
extraordinary measures in the wake of the 2008 financial
crisis, it funneled nearly $2.8 trillion through 29
Fixed Fortune firms. The companies that participated the
most in politics got huge returns.
Of the 200 corporations we examined, we could sum the
financial rewards for 179. Of those, 138 received more from
the federal government than they spent on politics, 102 of
them received more than 10 times what they spent on politics,
and 29 received 1,000 times or more from the federal
government than they invested in lobbyists or contributed to
political committees via their employees, their family members
and their PACs.
As for the other 21 companies on our list, while we could not
quantify the financial benefits that some received, we were
able to identify them. Some examples:
Arch Coal lists the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), the
government corporation that’s the largest public electricity
producer, as one of its three biggest customers. TVA does
not release data on its coal purchases.
Forest City Enterprises does not appear as a landlord in
the Government Services Agency’s database of federal rental
agreements, though its annual report notes that the U.S.
government is the third-biggest customer for its pricey New
York City office space.
Occidental Petroleum has leases on federal land to extract
natural gas, but the government does not release information
on how much that gas is withdrawn or how much it is worth.
And while the government has so far refused to release
information on what retailers get the most purchases via
food stamps, Wal-Mart went so far as to acknowledge in a
filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission that
reductions in the now $78 billion-a-year Supplemental
Nutrition Assistance Program — or food stamps — could have a
significant impact on the company’s earnings, which totaled
$476 billion in its most recent fiscal year.
Of the 200 companies analyzed for Fixed Fortunes, 28 are in
what the money in politics research organization the Center
for Responsive Politics classifies as the communications and
electronics sector, 21 in healthcare, 13 in defense and
aerospace, 13 agribusinesses, 11 in energy and natural
resources, and 7 in transportation. The biggest sector,
accounting for 48 of the 200, was finance, insurance and real
estate, which is consistently the largest source of campaign
funds for politicians cycle after cycle. Congress and the
executive branch have paid particular attention to the
industry, approving hundreds of billions in aid to help it
weather the financial crisis. Meanwhile, the Federal Reserve
advanced trillions in credit, which the nation’s central bank
hoped would trickle down through the rest of the economy.
And then there is the military industrial complex:
Weapons

manufacturers like Boeing and Lockheed Martin, both of which
disclosed spending more than $10 million each year on
lobbying, also made the list. So did McKesson, a
pharmaceutical wholesaler that is the biggest vendor for
Veterans Affairs, and the Carlyle Group, a wealth management
firm started by former government insiders who invest in firms
that have significant involvement with government, such as
defense, telecommunications and health care.
But nothing, nothing, compares to
the return that Wall Street got on their "investment" in
government. And the biggest irony: some of the
firms bribing, pardon, lobbying the US government and
generating the greatest returns were not even American!
Companies with the biggest returns on their political
investments include three foreign financial service and
banking firms, UBS and Credit Suisse Group from Switzerland,
and Deutsche Bank of Germany, all of which
benefited from the Treasury Department’s taxpayer-financed
rescue of American International Group. Investment
banks Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley as well as commercial
banks like JPMorgan Chase & Co., Citigroup, Wells Fargo
and Bank of America also received far more from government
than they put into politics: They benefited from the
bailouts of the financial industry undertaken by Treasury
and the Federal Reserve.
Ironically, one thing the Fixed Fortune 200 did not do, for the
most part, was take advantage of the "new opportunities" to
spend on politics that the Citizens United decision afforded
them.
The 200 corporate donors gave just $3 million to super PACs,
with the bulk of that amount a single $2.5 million donation
from Chevron to the Congressional Leadership PAC, a super PAC
that’s been linked to House Speaker John Boehner. It's
important to note, however, that contributions by these
companies to politically active nonprofits (a category that
includes the Chamber of Commerce) are impossible to track
because of tax laws that allow those entities to shield
donors.
And while one may be disgusted at the unprecedented crony
capitalism and corruption that has taken over DC, the root of
that frustration should be the very fabric of what passes for
democracy in the US - a fabric that is now mutated beyond
recognition in all three branches of government.
More than seven years after Washington passed the first
measures to stimulate the economy as the housing bubble
started to burst, more and more Americans are living on less
and less, without as much savings and other assets to fall
back on in hard times. Washington policies that have restored
corporate profits and made the stock market boom have left
much of the country behind. Perhaps that’s why a whole host of
polls, from networks and news organizations and nonprofit
groups, show large majorities of Americans, year after year,
saying that the country is on the wrong track.
In its Citizens United decision, the court took for granted
that “favoritism and influence” are inherent in electoral
democracy and that “democracy is premised on responsiveness”
of politicians to those who support them. We found ample
evidence of that.
“The appearance of influence or access,” the court
said, “will not cause the electorate to lose faith in our
democracy.”
It appears that the electorate — who stayed away
from the polls this year in droves — might not agree.
But don't worry: at least under Obama regime of daily
choreographed distraction, gays and lesbians can legally marry,
illegal immigrants will no longer be deported and women have
never been more "equal" with men. Oh and the repeat invasion of
Afghanistan is solely to punish a few head-cutting terrorists
(who got their funding, training and weapons with the blessings
of Qatar and the CIA).
And don't forget to bash that evil, evil regime in Russia where
democracy is being trampled on a daily basis: the mainstream
media which is also controlled by a handful of US billionaires,
will have you know.

In fact, whatever you do just please ignore what
is happening in the US right under everyone's noses.
And just in case what is happening is still unclear, here is
the breakdown of the Top 25 contributors (full
data set can be found as spreadsheet,
html,
or csv),
or rather beneficiaries, of
America's so-called "democracy."