Q. How much did Google just spend applying political pressure in the US? A. $4.6 million
Found on The Register on Friday, 24 July 2015
Moneybags Google has topped the list of tech-giant political lobbyists again, spending $4.62m in the past three months alone in Washington DC and elbowing its way into an enormous range of issues.
The multimillion-dollar total is, essentially, the wages and expenses bill of Google's political pressure unit.
That's why people think politicians can be bought.