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Friday, February 19, 2016

"While Sanders wants to minimize the role of money in elections and is opposed to super PACs and other third-party groups that play in electoral politics, Koch is supportive of spending large sums of money to impact the outcome of elections." Sure Koch is supportive-- he has the money it takes.

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COMMENTS: 
*  Yeah sure... less government regulations in Flint, Michigan would have sure helped, right David? Less regulations on Wall Street sure worked out great for home owners didn't it, David? And how about less regulations on BP in the gulf, or in New Orleans during Katrina? That was sure great. If the government doesn't regulate, who will? You? Fat chance you greedy POS! You must think Americans are stupid. Then again, if they elect Donald Trump.. you could end up being right. Nothing would surprise me anymore.
*  Mr. Koch is single-handedly turning the state of Kansas upside down. The Governor and most of the legislature are doing just what Koch tells them. If a legislator does disagree, big money is spent to persuade people that this legislator is wrong and supports the cancer of our society (none other than Obama, according to the Koch's). This is exactly how Brownback got reelected. The fear that someone as bad, as black, as evil, as black, as divisive, as black, as Obama could be leading the State. What does the state of Kansas get? The Koch corporation and all of its propagandistic glory have taken over the state. And... hold on, now they are after the Supreme Court Judges, to completely take control of the State. Oh, this is okay, as long as it is not Obama. WOW!
*  The only thing that will fix the U.S. Economy will be for the one-per centers to start  paying their fair share of the tax burden.  That will never happen.  Those tax laws can only change by an Act of Congress.  And as long those corporation are allowed to lobby/bribe Congress and to hand over campaign contributions that are a fraction of what they really owe in taxes, things will never change.  We are exhorted on by the one-per centers to carry their burden with the reminders that in the next life we will live in Mansions in the Sky and walk Streets Paved of Gold
*  If the Koch Brothers had it their way our money would have printed on it "In Koch's We Trust"!
*  Don't worry.  Trump has promised to bring back all the jobs from China.  And they won't be those evil union jobs that built the middle class.  They will be $3 per hour jobs and I know you would love to have one!   You can live on next to nothing...can't you?
*  Reduce regulations--now there is a good one.  Just look at Flint and imagine that magnified 1000 times with no regulations. We could be just like China breathing through masks, drinking water not fit for pigs, and eating food that will eventually kill us all while corporations make billions. Conservatives better wake up....
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Is Charles Koch feeling the Bern?
By Leigh Ann Caldwell, February 19, 2016

Billionaire conservative activist Charles Koch poses this question in an opinion piece in the Washington Post: “Is Charles Koch feeling the Bern?”

“Hardly,” Koch writes, but he does point out on area where he does agree with the self-identified Democratic socialist: “A political and economic system that is often rigged to help the privileged few at the expense of everyone else.”

Koch continues: “He believes that we have a two-tiered society that increasingly dooms millions of our fellow citizens to lives of poverty and hopelessness. He thinks many corporations seek and benefit from corporate welfare while ordinary citizens are denied opportunities and a level playing field.”

On those points, Koch writes, “I agree with him.”

At the Koch brothers’ donor seminar in January, Charles Koch also talked about Sanders. He told a captive crowd of 500 attendees that “Bernie Sanders is so popular because a lot of what he says is true.”

Where they differ, of course, is how to address the problem. While Sanders supports expanding the government safety, Koch supports a free market with limited government interference and regulation.

“Whenever we allow government to pick winners and losers, we impede progress and move further away from a society of mutual benefit,” Koch write. “That’s why Koch Industries opposes all forms of corporate welfare — even those that benefit us.”

They also disagree on the role of money in politics. While Sanders wants to minimize the role of money in elections and is opposed to super PACs and other third-party groups that play in electoral politics, Koch is supportive of spending large sums of money to impact the outcome of elections. His network spent $400 million in the 2012 election and could spend as much this election cycle.
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