i'm surprised by how broken and corrupt the political system is also the maximum amount you can give to a campaign is sixty six hundred bucks because we don't want any one person to have corrupting influence over our present ninety plus percent of the money that's been spent on this campaign season so far has not been spent by the campaigns of the individual candidates that are subject to these limits it's spent by super pacs these are the separate entities where there's no limit to how much money people can put in they can put in a million they can put in ten million and you have people putting in soon to be hundreds of millions as individuals why did they do that to get influenced the candidates what they do is they show up at events hosted by the super pac where there are mega donors in that room ten twenty people given millions of dollars a piece that's who the candidate knows is actually funding their campaign the things they say on tv that's not them speaking that's some mega donors speaking using their vocal cords as a vessel to communicate