The amount of money in American politics, especially from large donors and Big Business, has exploded over the past decade. This is a huge problem, because the more money that's on the table, the more time our leaders spend chasing it – biasing them towards elite interests and away from ours. As Benjamin Page writes, "hours spent grubbing for money from rich donors changes candidates' priorities and sense of the people's needs. They hear over and over about high taxes on the wealthy, and 'wasteful' spending on social programs. Special tax breaks for corporations and hedge fund managers start to sound reasonable." When big money runs our politics, big interests run our society.