Cost of Corporate Elections

https://www.opensecrets.org/featured-datasets

The total cost of the USA 2020 election will nearly reach an unprecedented $14 billion, making it the most expensive election in history and twice as expensive as the previous presidential election cycle. 

How much PPE could 14 billion purchase to protect health care workers. How many of the 250,000 CV-19 deaths would this money have prevented. 

While politicians insulted and fought with each other many Americans died and lost their economic freedom.

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The final price tag for the 2016 election was: $6.5 billion for the presidential and congressional elections combined, according to campaign finance watchdog OpenSecrets.org.

The presidential contest — primaries and all — accounts for $2.4 billion of that total. The other $4 billion or so went to congressional races. Politicians used that money to fuel a 596-day political contest that average Americans were "disgusted with".

The $6.5 billion could have repaired lead poison in water infrastructure in over 25 cities.

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President Donald Trump's reelection campaign sparred with local Minneapolis officials when a local arena threatened to bar the campaign from holding a rally if they did not pay a $530,000 bill -- a fee that was passed on by the city for security services, among other costs.

The Center for Public Integrity reported in June that at least 10 cities have invoices unpaid for more than $841,000 in services related to public safety costs for Trump campaign rallies. 

CNN has found that at least six of those cities still have outstanding invoices:

• El Paso, Texas, for a rally held in February 2019 totaling $470,417

• Spokane, Washington, for a rally held in May 2016 totaling $65,124

• Mesa, Arizona, for a rally held in October 2018 totaling $64,467

• Eau Claire, Wisconsin, for a rally held in April 2016 totaling $47,398

• Lebanon, Ohio, for a rally held in October 2018 totaling $16,191

• Burlington, Vermont, for a rally held in January 2018 totaling $8,464

The cost of this 2016 corporate election should include the unecessary and preventable 250,000 deaths and maybe up to 20,000,000 personal and corporate bankruptcies.