Sure. We taxpayers have all the money. However, it doesn't follow that we have a unified idea as to how to spend it.
The reason that big business can do more is that they have both money and a focused agenda. Getting all the people with small amounts of money to work towards a common goal isn't a common, or easy for that matter, thing to do. /shrug
This is easily observed when the electorate has sent up an Opposition Congress to the White House. How that works itself out in anyone's mind to be a good idea is beyond me because it logjams a process already littered with tedious people.

