Despite what you may have heard, it is unions, not businesses that throw around the most money on Capitol Hill. Check out these charts.
The data included in this post is from 1989-2009. It is illuminating. For instance as you can see here, unions gave more to political parties (really the Dems) than any industry group, by a good bit.
Here it is broken out by party. Not surprising that the GOP isn’t getting much union support.
This graph almost makes tobacco look friendly.
And how the industry groups break out by party. The only group that gave less in percentage terms to the GOP than unions? Lawyers.
With the amount of money organized labor spends on politicians it’s amazing any business gets done in this country at all.