answer:The sources you’ve listed, while substantial sums of money for sure, are not the big money people are complaining about. The money people are worried is poisoning the system is the money coming from Superpacs. Corporations, billionaires, even foreign nationals can contribute as much as they want without ever even having to be identified. While incredibly unlikely, isn’t it at least a little bit frightening to think that a foreign government could be funneling billions of dollars into a superpac favoring one candidate or the other, for it’s own nefarious reasons? To put this in prospective for you, you listed several companies that gave money to candidates, totaling roughly 4.8 million dollars (and that’s for both elections, 2008 and 2012). American’s for Prosperity, not even the largest superpac, which is funded entirely by the Koch brothers and about a dozen of their friends.. has committed to spending 1 billion dollars on this election. That is the influence of money we are afraid of. Over 80% of all superpac money comes from less than 100 people. And more frightening to me and my liberal brethren, over 90% of all superpac money is going to support conservatives. Money has become speech, and that’s a scary prospect.