[Leto]

Agree the bulk of political corruption surrounds buying tax vreaks by special interests. If you go to the source URL for the article, there are some eye opening charts on the amount of political contributions made to members of the ways & means committee's as opposed to the rest of congress.

[Badger1]

Yes, I noticed the chart "Those who write the tax laws get the most contributions" in the Heritage article (in fact I read this article when it first came out).

It is very instructive to see the importance special interests apply to members of Congress who write tax laws. But all members of congress get money from groups who want preferential tax treatment. Eliminating the ability of Congress to give this preferential tax treatment will go a long way toward seriously reducing the work for lobbyists in Congress.