10 Things Americans Spend More on Than Elections
Heritage Investigate: The $6 billion tab of 2011-12 election cycle political expenditures had barely been tallied before anti-free speech groups began calling for additional campaign finance reforms.
With all the hyperventilating over the supposedly outsized spending on American elections, we thought it would be insightful to examine some of the things on which Americans spend more – vastly more, in some cases – than their political system.
(Note: The tallies below are annual expenditures. If an election cycle is measured as a two-year time frame, a two-year comparison would actually double the totals below. (h/t NRO)
Video games – $9.3 billion
Pet food – $19.5 billion
Cosmetics – $33.3 billion
Movie theater admissions – $10.4 billion
Halloween – $8 billion
Pizza – $27 billion
Bottled water – $21.7 billion
Lottery tickets – $59 billion
Tax preparation – $140 billion
Coffee – $11 billion
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With all the hyperventilating over the supposedly outsized spending on American elections, we thought it would be insightful to examine some of the things on which Americans spend more – vastly more, in some cases – than their political system.
(Note: The tallies below are annual expenditures. If an election cycle is measured as a two-year time frame, a two-year comparison would actually double the totals below. (h/t NRO)
Video games – $9.3 billion
Pet food – $19.5 billion
Cosmetics – $33.3 billion
Movie theater admissions – $10.4 billion
Halloween – $8 billion
Pizza – $27 billion
Bottled water – $21.7 billion
Lottery tickets – $59 billion
Tax preparation – $140 billion
Coffee – $11 billion
Tags: Americans, campaign finance, elections, free speech, consumption spending, video games, pet food, cosmetics, movie theater admission, Halloween, pizza, bottled water, lottery tickets, tax preparation coffee To share or post to your site, click on "Post Link". Please mention / link to the ARRA News Service. Thanks!
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