## The ROI of Washington
When a major corporation wants to increase its profits by $50 Million, it has two choices. Option A: Invent a fantastic new product, hire a marketing team, build a factory, and pray that consumers actually buy it. Option B: Pay 5 guys in Washington D.C. a few million dollars to take a politician to dinner.
### FAQ
**Q: Why is corporate lobbying considered the highest-yielding asset class?**
A: Asymmetrical Legislation. Tax bills passed by Congress are routinely over 1,500 pages long. Congressmen do not read them. Lobbyists write them. If a $5 Billion software company pays a lobbying firm $4.5 Million, that lobbying firm will insert an obscure, highly-technical 12-word paragraph on page 842 of the bill. That paragraph legally reclassifies the company's servers in Ireland as "Offshore Intellectual Property Research Centers," which triggers a 4.5% tax deduction. For a $4.5M investment in lobbyists, the software company instantly saves $45 Million in taxes that year, and every year forever. A 1,000% Annual ROI. In modern American capitalism, it is significantly cheaper and more reliable to manipulate the tax code than it is to innovate.