Powerful lobbies exist in the United States largely because of the country's scale, which makes lobbying payoffs large enough to justify the spending.
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The causal claim about why US lobbies are powerful is an interpretive thesis with no clear test.
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Nassim Taleb, “Powerful lobbies exist in the United States largely because of the country's scale, which makes lobbying payoffs large enough to justify the spending.” (said 10 July 2017). Verdict: unresolvable. Reliability API, claim c_b791e8ef40e0, method 0.1.0+28da144b, dataset release v1.1.2. https://epistacklabs.com/claims/c_b791e8ef40e0
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