Extortion by Any Other Name

Here is a little piece from the book Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand. Sure does ring a bell...

"And yet --- he thought --- through all the generations of political extortion, it was not the looting beaurocrats who had taken the blame, but the chained industrialists, not the men who peddled legal favors, but the men who were forced to buy them; and through all those generations of crusades against corruption, the remedy had always been, not the liberation of the victims, but the granting of wider powers of extortion to the extortionist"

Example #1

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/31/business/31auto.html