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When I read news about the US that's the impression I've got. I'm from Spain, and we (and our neighbors) are quite vocal about our corruption, but the more I re
by iagovar 7y ago
When I read news about the US that's the impression I've got. I'm from Spain, and we (and our neighbors) are quite vocal about our corruption, but the more I read the more I realize that the stuff that is happening here would be just legal somewhere else.
Here a party receiving money from companies is a big deal.
- adventured 7y agoIt's partially (not entirely) a myth about US politics. The majority of political donations come from individuals. Obama for example raised $1.23 billion from individual contributions over his political career. Out of about $1.5 billion total. For Trump, about 60% of his campaign's funding came from individual donations (about $220m), his money included. Trump gave about $66m to his own campaign, or around 20% of all the funding. Supporting PACs spent around $100 million. Hillary Clinton got about 71% of her campaign funds from individual contributions (around $405m). Her supporting PACs spent around $210m. For the prominent Ted Cruz vs Beto O'Rourke Texas Senate battle, Cruz got 77% of his funding from individual contributions. From there you'd have to look into the share of the PAC money that comes from individuals versus companies etc. PACs commonly derive a large share of their funding from individual contributions. For some of that you can get good figures, some of it is shadowy.
- inuhj 7y agoSome people donate individually and not from their business because they don't want anyone looking deeply.