> why is this even an issue?

Because the Democrats want to press home the message that corporations and wealth are inherently evil in this election cycle, and the chairman of the committee quoted in the article is a Democrat, as the article mentions, twice.

An unfortunately large percentage of the US population apparently isn't capable of formulating the good and simple question in the last sentence of your post -- a large enough percentage that the story can attract enough eyeballs to justify its publication.