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Originally Posted by DeadMoneyDad
Where do you get your figures?
If we had to hire lobbyists to go out and get information from those who have never provided even a hint of a position on this, it would not be cheap.
Not cheap X 50 = expensive -- any way you look at it.
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We all thought everything was going to cost a lot more in dollars, but know now that with a little creative thinking and a little group effort, that the important things get done very cheaply in dollars just not time or effort. Utilizing all of the free tools you lauded in you 10k post I'm sure the cost could be much much less.
You're right about that. That's why we're not spending millions quantifying opt-outs, especially as these quantifications would start going stale the day they were printed.
We're addressing the situation in the least expensive means possible. We're having our members write to state lawmakers. These letters are
two-fers, so to speak, in that they both advocate and inform. We're also working to ensure that the legislation has the appropriate rigor for opting out, along with sufficient carrots to gain opt-ins. We're all also doing a lot of work with media to put our position into the mainstream.
There are some states where we have full-time lobbying efforts. CA, MA, and KY come to mind. While it doesn't make fiscal sense to do this every state, we have been able to apply some of the lessons learned across the fifty states.