dcjohnson, Governments allow people with money to set up corporations, in order to accomplish things the public want done. Why ELSE would a democracy do this?
(Executives of) Corporations treat rules & regulations that protect the public as an annoyance. They look for ways around those rules.
One of the ways around those rules & regulations is paying politicians to change or ignore the rules, resulting in harm to the public.
The US doesn't ban this. The UK doesn't ban this.