MyDD, July 26, 2006
By Matt Stoller

The entrenched corruption in our political system couldn't happen without a correspondingly corrupt attitude in our corporate boardrooms. The modern business PAC system started in the late 1970s, and I don't think it's a coincidence that corporate power began its ascendence in the 1980s. Bribery is bribery, even if it's legal.

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