I believe that all the law-writing and regulations are a great part of the problem of “favors”. A business is in the business of making money to survive. If the regs the government has shackled businesses with will put them out of business, the business is going to do what it must to survive. So, many businesses lobby Congressmen to exempt them in some way or the other from the regulations. And when they lobby they are forming relationships, “you scratch my back…”, etc. It really is a brothel in Washington – Congressmen selling their vote to the highest bidder, and selling their souls and our country at the same time.
Until a lot of laws are taken off the books and we get back to Constitutional governance nationally (aka limited government), we will suffer from this corruption.
