Matt Taibbi latest exposé in Rolling Stone is an eye-opener. He reports on a recently-concluded, and totally-ignored-by-the-MSM, trial that took place in Manhattan.
A newly released report from Public Campaign, appropriately entitled For Hire: Lobbyists or the 99%?, is only shocking if you haven't yet realized that this is precisely the object of the manipulation of tax laws exercised by the corporations that pull the puppets' strings in American government at all levels.
"By employing a plethora of tax-dodging techniques, 30 multi-million dollar American corporations expended more money lobbying Congress than they paid in federal income taxes between 2008 and 2010..."