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Your Taxes Are Complicated Because Corporate Lobbyists Want Them That Way

Taxes are needlessly complicated because billion-dollar companies invest millions in making them that way. A 2009 study estimates that increasing lobbying expenditures by 1% lowers effective tax rates for that company by 0.5 to 1.6%. The tax code isn’t just a symbol for how the super-rich trample all over our democracy, it is a central … Your Taxes Are Complicated Because Corporate Lobbyists Want Them That Way