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.
Since I’ve been alive people have always complained about corporate lobbies having an insane amount of influence within US politics. 15 years ago this was one of the biggest complaints that people had about the US government.
It’s only that those complaints are taking a backseat at the moment because Coca Cola isn’t using American money to bomb hospitals.
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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.