[milcron]

That's a good quibble. People should be allowed to organize. I suppose there should be a distinction between political organizations and profitable ones.

So a group "Whigs for America" pooling donations is fine, but a for-profit corporation spending millions on lobbying would not be fine.

The difference being that the former group is a non-profit collection of people concerned about some aspect of government.

Whereas when for-profit entities funnel millions into lobbying, and we get profit-oriented results like this http://abcnews.go.com/Business/turbotax-lobbies-lawmakers-ta...