The Families Funding the 2016 Presidential Election (Published 2015)
www.nytimes.com
Just 158 families have provided nearly half of the early money for efforts to capture the White House.
  • Pringles@sopuli.xyz
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    21 hours ago

    I think you have lost all sense of how much a billion is from it being thrown around so much. 5.5 billion is an enormous sum of money. Think of how much 1 million is, then imagine spending that 5500 times. It’s an obscene amount. Sure, some people have more wealth than that, but it’s still an absurdly large amount.