Re: it's much harder for them to bribe politicians to look away from the problems.
> It kind'a made sense until I came across this sentence. At that point I stopped thinking
FTFY
"Hello, Mr Politician, we would like to make a large contribution to your election fund. By the way, there's this piece of legislation we would find very helpful to our business if it were enacted..."
America, the country that gave us the saying: "An honest politician is one that stays bought"!