Toyota has stepped up lobbying to preserve its investments in hybrids, hydrogen
&gt; Toyota has stepped up lobbying to preserve its investments in hybrids, hydrogen<p>Am I the only one who thinks it is 100% wrong that companies can give politicians hundreds of millions of dollars?<p>Politicians are supposed to represent people. Real breathing people.<p>Sampling a handful of other countries, like Canada, Germany, Japan, etc. I found that they all pretty much banned (or drastically curtailed) donations form companies, unions, and trade associations. Most of them had some combination of publically funded campaigns and incentives and limits for personal donations. In a couple of the countries I looked at there were limits on how long campaigns lasted.<p>The corporate lobbying that goes on in the U.S. would be illegal in many other countries and counted against them in corruption indexes.<p>We need an amendment to reverse the supreme court on this. Once we get rid of corporate money from politics we might have a shot at fixing a lot of other problems.