Barack and Hillary Selling Tax Breaks. Literally.

Obama and Hillary are promising to quit giving tax breaks to rich people, and instead give them to the little, middle-class, hard-working folks.

Like their big campaign donors:

WASHINGTON — Both Democratic presidential candidates, who promise to curb the influence of corporate lobbyists in Washington, helped enact narrowly tailored tax breaks sought by major campaign contributors.

Sen. Barack Obama’s presidential campaign has accepted $54,350 from members of a law firm that in 2006 lobbied him to introduce a tax provision for a Japanese drug company with operations in Illinois, according to public records and interviews. The government estimates the provision, which became law in December 2006, will cost the treasury $800,000.

In 2002, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton introduced legislation at the request of Rienzi & Sons, a Queens, N.Y., food importer, according to company president Michael Rienzi. The provision, which became law in December 2004, required the government to refund tens of thousands of dollars in duty charged on imported tomato products, Rienzi told USA TODAY.

Rienzi gave $110,000 to committees set up to support Clinton’s 2000 Senate race, records show. Rienzi family members contributed an additional $52,800 to her campaigns since 2000. Michael Rienzi also said he donated to Bill Clinton’s presidential foundation, but he declined to say how much.

Want a big tax break from Obama or Hillary? Throw them a few tens-of-thousands of dollars. They’ll see what they can do for you.

So much for their promises to reduce the influence of corporate interests in Washington….they must be talking about someone else’s interest. Just not the ones that benefit themselves.

What Culture of Corruption, indeed.