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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Thu Oct 30, 2014, 07:37 PM Oct 2014

Does political spending give large corporations more clout than small biz?

Is water wet?

A new poll found that 77 percent of small business owners think big businesses have a significant impact on government decisions and the political process.

Only 24 percent this small businesses have the same influence, according to the poll, which was conducted for Small Business Majority, a Democratic-leaning advocacy organization, by Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research, a Democratic polling firm.

The poll found that 85 percent think political campaigns should be financed only by small contributions from voters and a limited amount of public funds. Plus, 93 percent favor requiring special interest groups that run political ads during campaigns to disclose the sources of their money.


http://www.bizjournals.com/seattle/news/news-wire/2014/10/30/does-political-spending-give-large-corporations.html?ana=e_du_pub&s=article_du&ed=2014-10-30&u=ColXVN5SPzQtLHFP87ho2w07857290&t=1414712109

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