Last year, 150 billionaire families put some $1.9 billion in the coffers of presidential and congressional candidates--with the ten biggest contributors providing almost half of that total. This dystopian situation is an indication, not just of the spiraling power and wealth of the superrich, but of the weakness of the forces supposedly set up to countervail that power.
David Kass on Billionaire Election-Buying
The increasing influence of the super rich on the politics and policy we all have to live with is an urgent story, if not a new one.
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