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Typical lobbying is completely the opposite of that. The companies who have the resources to do it aren't going to be inside the threshold between e.g. $25m and $100m and they wouldn't want to stay that size anyway, so what they'll do is lobby for a generic exception that isn't related to entity size at all. Or if anything is inversely related to it, so that the same large entities that have the resources to successfully lobby to change the law are also the only ones who can comply with the rules while simultaneously skirting their intended purpose.

And if you have a problem with corporations controlling your legislature then in general it doesn't do a whole lot of good to debate what some other law should be since the better law wouldn't be enacted by a legislature controlled by lobbyists anyway.




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