Re: corruption index

Buying out the world's oldest constitutional republic: Priceless.

> From: Kendall Grant Clark <kendall-4GNy1lrxftmrG/[email protected]>
> Reply-To: bonobos-4GNy1lrxftmrG/[email protected]
> Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2002 13:12:08 -0500
> To: bonobos-4GNy1lrxftmrG/[email protected]
> Subject: [Bonobos] corruption index
> 
> 
> Size of fine Merrill Lynch, contributor of more than $2.3 million to federal
> candidates and parties since 1999, agreed to pay to settle charges of
> systematically misleading investors: $100 million
> 
> Amount Merrill Lynch gave to the Bush-Cheney 2001 Presidential Inaugural
> Committee: $100,000
> 
> Number of $100,000 contributors to the Bush-Cheney 2001 Presidential Inaugural
> Committee: 225
> 
> Number of Bush "pioneers", individuals who raised at least $100,000 for his
> 2000
> campaign: 214
> 
> Amount of money George W. Bush raised from individual donors in 1999 and 2000
> as
> a candidate for president: $101 million
> 
> Amount of money President Bush and Vice President Cheney have raised for the
> Republican Party and its candidates since January 1, 2002: $100 million
> 
> Amount contributed by WorldCom in 1999 towards the establishment of the Trent
> Lott Leadership Institute at the University of Mississippi: $1 million
> 
> Average amount given by the Big Five accounting firms and their industry
> lobby,
> from 1989-2001, to the 46 Senators and Congressmen who wrote the SEC in 2000,
> successfully preventing it from cracking down on the industry: $93,000
> 
> Odds of being audited by the Internal Revenue Service in 2001 if a taxpayer
> made
> over $100,000 a year: .69 out of 100
> 
> Odds of same taxpayer being audited thirteen years ago: 11.41 out of 100
> 
> Chances that a taxpayer making under $25,000 is more likely to be audited in
> 2001 than one making over $100,000: 1.2 to 1
> 
> Chances that a business making under $25,000 in profits was more likely to be
> audited than a business making over $100,000: 2.3 to 1
> 
> Percentage of large contributors to congressional campaigns who make over
> $100,000 a year: 81 out of 100
> 
> Number of U.S. Senators that are worth $1 million or more: at least 40 out of
> 100
> 
> Odds of a U.S. House incumbent winning election in 2000 if their opponent
> spent
> less than $100,000: 100%
> 
> Number of candidates running with 100% full public financing in Maine and
> Arizona: 353
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