For the past three years StatesOnTheTake.Com has chronicled the ever-expanding collection of “Stealth Cartels” across this country. 

These Stealth Cartels are comprised of Big Business and our elected state government  officials — Comrades in Collusion if you will, who, covertly scratch one-another’s back for their mutual financial and political benefits.   

Since the late 1990’s these Stealth Cartels  have steadily multiplied in effectiveness to the point where they threaten the very free market society upon which our country was based. 

Our site identified the mother of all Stealth Cartels in 2005, that being the “Master Settlement Agreement,”the “settlement” between 46 states and Big Tobacco, which occurred in the late 1990’s. 
A “settlement” which was in reality a partnership.