Moyers & Company: Billionaires Unchained
-By Andy Kroll, TomDispatch
This piece first appeared at TomDispatch. Read Tom Engelhardt’s introduction.
May 16, 2013- Billionaires with an axe to grind, now is your time. Not since the days before a bumbling crew of would-be break-in artists set into motion the fabled Watergate scandal, leading to the first far-reaching restrictions on money in American politics, have you been so free to meddle. There is no limit to the amount of money you can give to elect your friends and allies to political office, to defeat those with whom you disagree, to shape or stunt or kill policy, and above all to influence the tone and content of political discussion in this country.