Tom Steyer spent $16.3 million on ads in Iowa to get 3001 votes, which means that victory in November would cost him $340B. The very act of his running will substantially revitalize the American economy, albeit with a huge carbon footprint
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By comparison, Meg Whitman only spent $43 per vote in her losing bid to be Governator of California. It's amusing (and enraging) to consider that if Steyer had just invested the money in helping Iowa communities, he would have gotten far more votes.
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If present trends continue, 100 years from now all surplus wealth will be controlled by a handful of plutocrats who spend it shuttling rival bands of voters to elect them President of Mars
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