If you are retired, you do not have a source of income from a job--you rely on your savings, interest from investments, or the government (e.g., social security in the US). With a job, your salary typically increases every so often to track inflation. When you just have savings, the total value of your money stays the same while the purchasing power of that money decreases. Investment income on your savings (e.g., interest) counterbalances this effect somewhat and government programs typically give out more money to account for the effects of inflation, but neither of these counterbalancing measures may prove sufficient.
Laws passed between 1763 and 1775, caused tensions between colonists and imperial officials.
First, because interest groups have stronger and more realistic opinions about public policies (advantageous or not). Second, they are reference of economic, political and religious positions that also involve or interfere in numerous public policies. And third, interest groups are able to pressure congressmen (legislators) on some issues considered as urgent by them.
<em>All interest groups share a desire to affect government policy to benefit themselves or their causes.</em>
