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Interesting read. I certainly agree with Mr. Koch on some points. For instance, the DFW area has been good at attracting corporate headquarters, but often due to granting the corporation large tax advantages. Heck, we had one company (I can't remember the name) that had announced moving to the area, yet even after they had purchased the land and made the announcement, the local city/county officials offered to forgo real estate taxes for a number of years.
Here is an article about Texas from three years back:
"When informed by his aide that yesterday was August 1, not April 1, Mr. Koch cursed and walked away."
I am confused, but I am sure that his $2 billion donation to each of Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren will be forthcoming.
Mick
Here, let me clear up some of your confusion.
Koch is pro-freedom, pro-free enterprise. Government subsidies and bailouts are anti-freedom, anti-free enterprise.
Specifically, Warren and Sanders helped destroy independent community banks. The heavily subsidized "too big to fail" banks, pimped around endlessly by government regulators and bureaucrats, are the "winners." America is a huge loser. And, yes, I am talking about Dodd-Frank and its Frankenstein offspring.
Specifically, the crony capitalists draining our public funds for alternative energy boondoggles, combined with the idiot notion that we can shut down 20% of our electric generating capacity, is anti-freedom.
When government controls everything, corruption rises because there are huge benefits to owning a piece of government. In a free market, you have to win the votes of people voting with their wallets. This is the irony of those who think the Kochs own the government--Kochs are patriots who want to restore more free-market influence and less government.
And, by the way, the next time you need a gallon of gas to get somewhere, is Nancy Pelosi or Liz Warren or any of the rest of your heroes going to sell it to you? Thank the Koch brothers instead.
Koch is pro-freedom, pro-free enterprise. Government subsidies and bailouts are anti-freedom, anti-free enterprise.
Specifically, Warren and Sanders helped destroy independent community banks. The heavily subsidized "too big to fail" banks, pimped around endlessly by government regulators and bureaucrats, are the "winners." America is a huge loser. And, yes, I am talking about Dodd-Frank and its Frankenstein offspring.
Specifically, the crony capitalists draining our public funds for alternative energy boondoggles, combined with the idiot notion that we can shut down 20% of our electric generating capacity, is anti-freedom.
When government controls everything, corruption rises because there are huge benefits to owning a piece of government. In a free market, you have to win the votes of people voting with their wallets. This is the irony of those who think the Kochs own the government--Kochs are patriots who want to restore more free-market influence and less government.
And, by the way, the next time you need a gallon of gas to get somewhere, is Nancy Pelosi or Liz Warren or any of the rest of your heroes going to sell it to you? Thank the Koch brothers instead.
And notice the feeble minded who ALWAYS want to talk bad about the Koch bros., who were 59th I believe in donations, and never seem to get around to talking about ANY of the big dem donors, who are much higher on the list.
Maybe his employees would be better off, if the Billions that are made on their productivity went into their pockets, instead of funding for shadow non-profits controlled by the Koch Brothers.
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