Analysis: America's wealth gap makes it trivial for billionaires to cover whoever's bills they want.
over the past two decades. There are ethical issues at play, given that Thomas failed to report all of this largesse. But those brief descriptions also fail to account for all of Crow’s investment. Thomas’s mother still resides at one of the properties Crow bought, for example, and tens of thousands of dollars were spent improving it after he did.Thomas did not immediately respond to a request for comment Thursday from The Washington Post.
Let’s say it’s $1 billion. Paying $6,000 a month for tuition, then, is the equivalent of someone worth $60,000 paying 36 cents. Buying a home for $133,000 is like someone worth $60,000 paying eight bucks. Not a bad deal to become the landlord for a Supreme Court justice’s mother. These are also not particularly large expenditures from Crow himself. Since 2016, Open Secrets reports that Crow has given
to federal candidates for office, almost all of it to Republicans. He also donates to various other conservative causes and institutions.What’s remarkable about the relationship between Crow and Thomas isn’t only that Thomas has been so indifferent to reporting Crow’s generosity. It’s also that there are so many other extremely wealthy Americans who could leverage their wealth to build relationships with people in power for whom $100,000 is anything but pocket change.
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