The True Cost of Corruption in America
When corporations can cut corners, buy silence, and artificially raise prices, both your health and your pocket book are directly jeopardized.
Corruption is spreading unchecked through our broken political system, directly affecting you and your families.
But we’re tackling it head on. Will you join us?
Lobbyists are poisoning your drinking water
The prevalence of dangerous chemicals in your drinking water is just one example of how corporate greed and our complicit political system are endangering your health.
In the last few years alone, PFAS companies and their related industry groups spent more than $110 million on lobbying efforts to kill or weaken legislation aimed at curbing PFAS.
Corporate profiteering, greedflation, and lobbyists are why your eggs are so expensive
Just a handful of companies dominate the market and control the supply of eggs. They have a history of colluding with each other and doing whatever’s necessary to protect their profits.
Our broken political system allows industries with big money (like Big Egg) to manipulate supply and lobby to maintain monopolies.
Healthcare is broken because our political system is broken
Medical costs are the #1 cause of bankruptcy in the U.S. and Big Pharma spends half a billion dollars a year influencing politicians.
We spend more on healthcare than every other developed nation in the world, but lose more of our lives to sickness and disability. How is this possible? Corruption.
Are there any solutions?
Yes! As part of our anti-corruption policy platform, we champion a number of effective and politically viable solutions including:
- Expanding the definition of “lobbyist” to close loopholes
- Banning lobbyist donations to elected officials
- A cooling-off period between serving in office and working as a lobbyist
- Strengthening penalties on attempts to buy political influence
- Caps on campaign spending
- Requiring disclosures on sources of major donations
- Expanding public finance to even the playing field for candidates
- Ending dark money
Since 2012, we’ve scored 200 wins all across the country to pass tough anti-corruption laws like these. See our wins »
To pass these laws, we follow a proven strategy of bypassing the broken Congress to pass tough anti-corruption laws city by city, state by state, limiting the influence of corporations, lobbyists, and special interest groups.
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