With the exception of cases of billionaire candidates like Ross Perot, getting those funds is virtually impossible. Evidently, wealth is a significant factor in obtaining acquiring political power. Another example of inequality due to one's class is the drafting policy in America. During the Vietnam War, the rich were rarely ever sent to fight in the war. In fact, former Vice President James Danforth Quayle avoided being sent to the Vietnam War by the joining the Indiana National Guard a week before he became eligible for draft on graduation.
Statistics support that the rich did indeed escape the draft.
76 percent of the 2,150,000 servicemen sent to Vietnam in 1973 came from working class backgrounds. Roughly 25 percent were from families below the poverty line. Such injustice is looked down upon today as un-American and, but, nevertheless, such inequity continues to exist today when hundreds of young men and women join the army for economic aid. The American judicial system is not protected from bias towards money. Among them are Barry Scheck, Carl Douglas, Alan Dershowitz, Johnnie Cochran, Robert Kardashian, F. Lee Bailey, Gerry Spence, and Robert Shapiro.