The Recorder – Connecting the Dots: Cutting IRS for the big money
Give me money, that’s what I wantThe best things in life are freeBut you can keep ‘em for the bird and bees;Now give me money, (that’s what I want) yeahThat’s what I want.“Money (That’s What I Want)” is a rhythm and blues song which was the first hit record for Berry Gordy’s Motown Records in 1959. Many artists have recorded the tune, including the Beatles in 1963 and the Flying Lizards in 1979.The way today’s financial lizards get their money in America is “buy” the ability to shape government policy. And elections.Back in 2014, Martin Gilens and Benjamin I. Page published a study about political inequality in America called “Testing Theories of American Politics: Elites, Interest Groups, and Average Citizens.” Their central finding was this: Economic elites and interest groups can sh...