Surprise. Corporate lobbyists powering up to occupy Congress on tax reform

For nearly 50 years, corporations and the most affluent Americans have gotten one income tax break after another. There have been occasional minor upticks in their rates, but the trend has been steadily downward. The purveyors of the idea that the wealthy still pay too much and corporations suffer from their tax burden compared with their counterparts in nations with which the United States competes are forever hard at work getting those ideas transformed into policy. The field of reformers with corporate lobbyist credentials is large.

to carry the fight forward. The likelihood of anything major happening in the coming election year is slim to nil, but everybody wants to hit the ground running in 2013, no matter what the outcome of the election. The lobbyists don't set up tent camps in public parks or do protest marches to close the ports. They prefer, in fact, to carry on much more quietly behind the scenes. Why mess with what works?

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