See here: Matias Vernengo on the Panama Papers – Note: The functionality of payola is endemic to capitalism, due to the fluidity of legality that allows the forces of endless accumulation to proceed accordingly. Thus, to generally consider state actors and agents of capitalist enterprise as ordinary ethical, righteous, upstanding representatives of constitutionality is utterly foolish. Mind you, the United States ranks as one of the world’s biggest tax havens.