Oil corporations are just one group that finances ALEC and drafts bills to pass across US states. This year alone, they have written 77 bills for corrupt legislators to advance their agenda. Faced with growing competition from the solar industry, which depends on middle-class households for 79% of new installations, the regressive and corrupt conservative ALEC group is now considering taxing homeowners who install solar panels, The Guardian reports.

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