Saturday, February 5, 2011

7 Ways the Koch Bros. Benefit from Corporate Welfare | The New York Observer

7 Ways the Koch Bros. Benefit from Corporate Welfare | The New York Observer: "Charles and David Koch, the secretive billionaire brothers who own Koch Industries, the largest private oil company in America, have spent millions bankrolling free-market think tanks and pro-business politicians in order, as David Koch has put it, 'to minimize the role of government, to maximize the role of private economy and to maximize personal freedoms.' But a closer look at their dealings reveals that for the past 35 years the brothers have never shied away from using government subsidies to maximize their own profits, even while endeavoring to limit government spending on anything else."

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