GOP Billionaires dominate giving

Tom Perkins, a Republican billionaire venture capitalist, once offered a “Hunger Games” take on money and American politics. “You pay a million dollars in taxes, you get a million votes — how’s that?” Perkins proposed in a speech last year. Perkins’ words sound like a billionaire’s fantasy unleashed about total political dominance of the lower 99.9 percent. But that fantasy is close to the reality of the 2016 election cycle in which, The New York Times reports, just 158 families have given half of all the money donated to presidential candidates. All but 20 of those wealthy families have given their money to Republicans/ Juan Williams, The Hill. More here .