By the 2016 campaign cycle, corporations and Wall Street contributed $34 to political campaigns for every $1 donated by labor unions and all public interest organizations combined. (And the richest one-hundredth of 1 percent of Americans accounted for 40 percent of all personal donations.)
Citizens United opened the floodgates to big money.
WHAT HAVE BIG CORPORATIONS and the ultra-wealthy received for all their money? Among other things:
— Lower trade barriers, ...