Charles Koch Says His Partisanship Was a Mistake
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Re: Charles Koch Says His Partisanship Was a Mistake
#2Main Koch PAC:
https://www.opensecrets.org/outsidespending/detail.php?cmte=...
Total Independent Expenditures: $41,016,106
For Democrats: $92,936
Against Democrats: $8,887,525
For Republicans: $32,035,645
Against Republicans: $0
https://www.opensecrets.org/search?order=desc&q=Koch+Industr...
Edit: Added link showing recent Koch Industry donations
Re: Charles Koch Says His Partisanship Was a Mistake
#3Too little, too late.
Re: Charles Koch Says His Partisanship Was a Mistake
#4Apologies if this is covered in the article, which I can't get to, but what is he doing to make amends? Or is this just empty, placatory words?
Re: Charles Koch Says His Partisanship Was a Mistake
#5Shouldn't have been allowed to have undemocratic control over that amount of political power (wealth) to begin with.
Re: Charles Koch Says His Partisanship Was a Mistake
#6Apologies if this is covered in the article, which I can't get to, but what is he doing to make amends? Or is this just empty, placatory words?
He's 85, his brother died recently, and he's very likely concerned about "legacy". According to Greenpeace, these assholes have poured $145,555,197 into groups that worked counter to climate policy changes being enacted (from 1997 to 2018). _Partisanship_ should be the least of his worries - he'll be remembered as a key figure who spurred inaction at the exact time that we should have been taking drastic action.
Re: Charles Koch Says His Partisanship Was a Mistake
#7Apologies if this is covered in the article, which I can't get to, but what is he doing to make amends? Or is this just empty, placatory words?
Judging by the title of his new book, I’d suggest he is going for the Cameron-esque Big Society argument for reducing taxes this time.
U.K. food bank use is at record highs [1].
1. https://www.theguardian.com/society/2020/jun/03/record-numbe...
Re: Charles Koch Says His Partisanship Was a Mistake
#8Shouldn't have been allowed to have undemocratic control over that amount of political power (wealth) to begin with.
I feel the same way. I am a voluntarist so I do not think forced wealth redistribution is the answer. But it’s clear to me that there are ways we can move to different businesses structures and property norms so that massive wealth has a tendency to be distributed throughout the population rather than concentrating in few hands.
It’s a challenge, for sure. And some proposed solutions may cause more harm that good. But it’s absurd to me the level of wealth inequality we have today. That there are individual humans worth over a billion dollars while so many even in developed nations are hungry and overworked.
More cooperatively owned firms and less intellectual property control are two voluntarist ways we can reduce this inequality.
Re: Charles Koch Says His Partisanship Was a Mistake
#9Apologies if this is covered in the article, which I can't get to, but what is he doing to make amends? Or is this just empty, placatory words?
Cynically I just think he wants to play ball with the Biden administration now that they’re talking a big talk about working with republicans.
Re: Charles Koch Says His Partisanship Was a Mistake
#10Shouldn't have been allowed to have undemocratic control over that amount of political power (wealth) to begin with.
I feel the same way. I am a voluntarist so I do not think forced wealth redistribution is the answer. But it’s clear to me that there are ways we can move to different businesses structures and property norms so that massive wealth has a tendency to be distributed throughout the population rather than concentrating in few hands. It’s a challenge, for sure. And some proposed solutions may cause more harm that good. Bu…
If rich people payed tax at the same rate as ordinary people, we'd be living in the same system without harmful extremes of inequality.