In the 2012 elections, Congressional and Presidential candidates and their supporters raised and spent over $6.2 billion dollars. The bulk of this money came from the richest one- half of one percent of the US population. As Will Rogers said, “We have the best Congress money can buy”!Buying access to politicians with their big-money donations, super-rich individuals and lobbyists hired by big corporations, can walk into the offices of Congresspersons to whom they donated, and ask for favors such as huge tax cuts, tax loopholes and subsidies, deregulation, and other favors for their multinational corporations. As a result, our corporate-funded politicians often give the super-rich what they want and deny the American middle class and poor the equal opportunity we need: funding for small business growth, world-class public schools, affordable college tuition, high paying jobs, and universal health care.Corporate sponsored politicians gave corporations the stock option tax loophole, the off-shoring tax loophole, and the oil severance tax loophole, which have been used by Facebook, Apple, and Chevron to legally avoid millions and billions in taxes, while receiving hundreds of millions of dollars in corporate welfare from the government. These politicians have also cut taxes overwhelmingly for the super wealthy, many of whom are their campaign donors.In my new book, Dollar Democracy: with Liberty and Justice for Some; How to Reclaim the American Dream for All, you’ll find out how millions of regular Americans were victimized by Dollar Democracy. Because politicians have taken the side of their wealthy donors, not the side of the American people, the rich are getting richer, the poor are getting poorer, and the middle class is disappearing. Here are some of the outrageous results of this Dollar Democracy:Read More.Progressive Populist/Peter Mathews