RETURN ON INVESTMENT: KU professors found companies realized big tax savings by spending for lobbyists. “Ninety-three of the country’s biggest multinational firms pulled in tax savings of more than $62 billion — after spending just $283 million to lobby for the bill. The study concluded that almost 500 companies got an average 22,000 percent return on their lobbying investments.”

With that kind of return, corruption is inevitable. A simpler system would make that kind of corruption impossible — which is why Washington won’t give us a simpler system.