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. scholar.princeton.edu/sites/default/files/mgilens/…

2. Washington Post, “Rich People Rule!” 2014.
www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/monkey-cage/wp/2014/0…

3. Washington Post, “Once again, U.S. has most expensive, least effective health care system in survey,” 2014.
www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2014…

4. Forbes Opinion, “The tax code is a hopeless complex, economy-suffocating mess,” 2013.
www.forbes.com/sites/billfrenzel/2013/04/04/the-ta…

5. CNN, “Americans pay more for slower Internet,” 2014.
money.cnn.com/2014/10/31/technology/internet-speed…

6. The Hill, “Sanders requests DOD meeting over wasteful spending,” 2015.
thehill.com/policy/finance/234578-sanders-requests…

7. CBS News, “Wastebook 2014: Government’s questionable spending,” 2014.
www.cbsnews.com/news/wastebook-2014-sen-coburn-hig…

8. The Heritage Foundation, Budget Book, 2015.
www.heritage.org/issues/budget-and-spending/govern…

9. The Atlantic, “American schools vs. the world: expensive, unequal, bad at math,” 2013.
www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2013/12/amer…

10. CNN Opinion, “War on drugs a trillion-dollar failure,” 2012.
www.cnn.com/2012/12/06/opinion/branson-end-war-on-…

11. Feeding America, Child Hunger Fact Sheet, 2014.
www.feedingamerica.org/hunger-in-america/impact-of…

12. New York Times, “Banks’ lobbyists help in drafting financial bills,” 2014.
dealbook.nytimes.com/2013/05/23/banks-lobbyists-he…

13. New York Times, “Wall Street seeks to tuck Dodd-Frank changes in budget bill,” 2014
dealbook.nytimes.com/2014/12/09/wall-street-seeks-…

14. Sunlight Foundation, “Fixed Fortunes: Biggest corporate political interests spend billions, get trillions,” 2014.
sunlightfoundation.com/blog/2014/11/17/fixed-fortu…

15. Sunlight Foundation, Fixed Fortunes database, 2015.
influenceexplorer.com/fixed-fortunes/