Corruption Is Legal In America
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1. Gilens and Page, “Testing Theories of American Politics: Elites, Interest Groups, and Average Citizens,” Perspective on Politics, 2014.
2. Washington Post, “Rich People Rule!” 2014.
3. Washington Post, “Once again, U.S. has most expensive, least effective health care system in survey,” 2014.
4. Forbes Opinion, “The tax code is a hopeless complex, economy-suffocating mess,” 2013.
5. CNN, “Americans pay more for slower Internet,” 2014.
6. The Hill, “Sanders requests DOD meeting over wasteful spending,” 2015.
7. CBS News, “Wastebook 2014: Government’s questionable spending,” 2014.
8. The Heritage Foundation, Budget Book, 2015.
9. The Atlantic, “American schools vs. the world: expensive, unequal, bad at math,” 2013.
10. CNN Opinion, “War on drugs a trillion-dollar failure,” 2012.
11. Feeding America, Child Hunger Fact Sheet, 2014.
12. New York Times, “Banks’ lobbyists help in drafting financial bills,” 2014.
13. New York Times, “Wall Street seeks to tuck Dodd-Frank changes in budget bill,” 2014
14. Sunlight Foundation, “Fixed Fortunes: Biggest corporate political interests spend billions, get trillions,” 2014.
15. Sunlight Foundation, Fixed Fortunes database, 2015.