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The High Cost of Running for Office

The average cost of winning a seat in the U.S House of Representatives is $1,567,379 which is a lot of money spent, to obtain a job that pays $ 174,000 per year.

The average cost of winning a campaign for a seat in the U.S. Senate in 2012 was $11,474,362

The men and women elected to Congress, fund their elections with other people's money. The donors are primarily corporations which provide the means for the candidates to get elected. Once they are elected they repay their benefactors by passing the legislation that benefits their donors. Congressmen and women do not represent the people who elect them, they represent the corporations who fund their election.

Senator Rick Scott of Florida spent over $64 million of his own dollars dollars to purchase his seat in the U.S, Senate in 2018 and his networth has grown from $232 million to well over $500 million during his tenure in office.

That number was upgraded in 2012 by OpenSecrets Blog to include 268 of the 534 member$ of CONgress having an average net worth of '1' million or more with Senators averaging $2.7 M.