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Topic: How Cheap Things *Used* to be

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OrangeAfroMan

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Re: How Cheap Things *Used* to be
« Reply #196 on: June 06, 2026, 05:22:25 PM »
Corporations mostly influence policy by lobbying, not political donations (except labor unions). 

Open Secrets has the list. 

McDonald’s

https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/mcdonald-s-corp/summary?id=D000000373


Contributing to campaigns influences who wins, and who wins helps dictate policy.  And what you said.  
Outspend.
Get what you want.
Legislate to keep the status quo.

Bastardizing the system.  Your pushback is unfortunate.  Revealing.  Sad.
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Re: How Cheap Things *Used* to be
« Reply #197 on: Today at 11:27:24 AM »
I "used" to go to Subway once in awhile, back in the day

haven't been for at least 5 years, probably closer to 10

I just don't consider myself a victim because Subway raised prices. I haven't bought a Subway sandwich in years.

I haven't had a Subway sandwich since pretty much my college days, over a decade ago, and even during those years I could tell the ingredients were gradually going flat, with all the different sandwiches starting to taste the same and the breads having that stale loaf smell.

But I do walk by a Subway several times a week; there's one two blocks from my building. I was surprised by their latest footlong deals as low as $7.99. But for this particular location, those franchise deals were only posted after a Jimmy Johns opened directly across the street. Every business on the block - 7/11, Smoke/Vape, and Grocery/Liquor Store - all display signs for EBT Accepted Here, which wasn't the case a decade ago.



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Re: How Cheap Things *Used* to be
« Reply #198 on: Today at 12:07:47 PM »
As I noted above, nearly all private for profit corporations stay out of political funding.  They do heavy lobbying of course, but they don't fund PACs of individual candidates, with few exceptions.  The corporations that DO fund such things are labor unions.

Large public companies don't wany to get labeled as being partisan for obvious reasons.  Their emlpoyees may contibute obviously.  I know where I worked it was verboten for the company to contribute to any political campaign or group.

 

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