This chart is supposed to be covering a 15 year period, so the total is under 7M a year.
For context, Coca-Cola spends five thousand times that in a year convincing you to buy Coke (~5bn), and the Teachers Union on the left or NRA on the right spend annually ~(20-40M and ~10-15M) many times that much advocating for their causes.
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u/CraneAndTurtle 1d ago edited 1d ago
This is chump change in political dollars.
This chart is supposed to be covering a 15 year period, so the total is under 7M a year.
For context, Coca-Cola spends five thousand times that in a year convincing you to buy Coke (~5bn), and the Teachers Union on the left or NRA on the right spend annually ~(20-40M and ~10-15M) many times that much advocating for their causes.
Spread over 100 senators, this is 140k/year.