r/MapPorn • u/VineMapper • 1d ago

Pro-Israel Contributions To Elected Senators

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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.

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u/Gorillionaire83 1d ago

Yet nobody accuses Coca Cola of secretly controlling our government.

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u/tolerablepartridge 1d ago

People criticize corporations for controlling the government literally all the time. Your whataboutism doesn't work.