Among the most costly regulations from 2011 were Environmental Protection Agency and Department of Transportation rules for new fuel economy standards for 2017 models and later light-duty vehicles, which were estimated to cost the auto industry a total of $140 billion to meet.
In the decade leading up to the financial collapse, 1998 to 2008, the finance, insurance and real estate industries spent a total of $5.18 billion to influence Congress and the White House, including $1.74 billion in campaign contributions and $3.44 billion on lobbying fees, according to an exhaustive study by the Consumer Education Foundation.
Mining and its related industries employ a total of 120,000 people and generate about five per cent of the country's GDP.
He rightly points out that Philanthropy is a very large industry, receiving a total of approximately $300 billion a year in the United States alone, but that most of that huge amount is given on the basis of emotional responses to images of the people, animals, or forests that the charity is helping.
It found the industry gave a total of $10.7 million to Republican candidates and committees and $3.2 million to Democrats.
But after the industry bid a total of $16 billion for airwaves covered by NextWave's licenses, a federal appeals court ruled that the F.C.C. had no right to seize the licenses.
Yet individuals and PAC's associated with the industry gave a total of just $8.4 million to political campaigns in the 2000 national election cycle, including soft money, according to the Center for Responsive Politics.
It had plenty of admirers for the way it had pioneered a new branch of the defence industry, earning a total of around $2 billion from Uncle Sam for providing armed personnel to the Pentagon, the State Department and, secretly, the CIA.
Seven out of the 16 donors who gave $1 million or more to the super PAC are from the finance industry and a total of $24 million of the $56.4 million contributed by all donors was from people and corporations in finance.
After all, this is an industry with a total of $200B in revenue.
