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These included the Cato Institute, the Heritage Foundation, Citizens for a Sound Economy, Americans for Prosperity, FreedomWorks, the Club for Growth, the State Policy Network, the Competitive Enterprise Institute, the Tax Foundation, the Reason Foundation, the Leadership Institute, and more, to say nothing of the Charles Koch Foundation and Koch Industries itself.
Virginia required voters to pay a tax to participate in the political process, and it was one of the states that also made that tax cumulative, so that if, say, two elections had not featured candidates who interested you but the third one did, you would have to pay all three years’ taxes to vote.
“Anybody who would not back these children after they stepped out on a limb is not a man,”
John Stokes’s family “kept five loaded guns ready” in case they were needed for self-defense; other black households stocked up on shotgun shells to be prepared if trouble came.
Buchanan told all who would listen in his later years,
it was, he said, “blatant discrimination.”
Awww! Welcome to the club.
It was a breathtakingly ignorant claim,
If parents had to bear the full cost of educating their children, he believed they would have “the appropriate number of children.”
James Buchanan began developing the innovative approach to political economy for which he was later awarded the Nobel Prize.
Local black youth remained schoolless from 1959 to 1964,
WOW !!!
The only explanation, they argued, was that allocating resources by majority decision-making invited voters to group together as “special interests”—or “pressure groups”—in collective pursuit of “profits” (later called “rent-seeking”) from government programs. In turn, candidates for office felt obligated to appeal to these special interests to achieve their own goal of winning elections, so they promised gains to multiple constituencies.
until recently.
Trump?
Lyndon Johnson, one of the most skilled political tacticians ever to sit in the Oval Office,
thought experiments, or hypothetical scenarios with no true research—no facts—to support them,
He also seemed uncomfortable about the number of African Americans living in the city and attending UCLA,
BOO-ya !!!
“I felt that I had landed in a lunatic asylum,” trapped in “a world gone mad,” James Buchanan would say of his time at UCLA.
“Employees of single-donor nonprofits,” said a disenchanted one who left, “follow the moods and movements of their benefactor like flowers in the field, their faces turned toward the sun.”
cool
because candidates faced no limits on how much they could contribute to their own races, they could run David Koch for vice president on the ticket with Clark.
a two-year college that was given the name George Mason. Housed in a shopping mall, it opened in 1957 to an enrollment of seventeen students.
Individual retirement accounts (IRAs), the report argued, were “a powerful vehicle for introducing a private Social Security system,”
Oh.
and much, much more.9
Get
Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants.”
Thom Tillis, a North Carolina state senator elevated to the U.S. Senate in 2014 with backing from the Koch apparatus, has said that restaurants should be able “to opt out of” laws requiring employees to wash their hands after using the toilet, “as long as they post a sign that says, ‘We don’t require our employees to wash their hands after leaving the restroom.’ The market will take care of that.”
WHAT !!!
they would rather invite global ecological and social catastrophe than allow regulatory restrictions on economic liberty.
WORD !!!
To put all this another way: if the Koch-network-funded academics and institutions were not in the conversation, the public would have little doubt that the evidence of science is overwhelming and government action to prevent further global warming is urgent.36 Sadly, however, their campaigns are working. The number of Americans who believed that “the continued burning of fossil fuels would alter the climate” dropped from 71 percent in 2007 to 44 percent in 2011.
Shit !
The libertarian cause, from the time it first attracted wider support during the southern schools crisis, was never really about freedom as most people would define it. It was about the promotion of crippling division among the people so as to end any interference with what those who held vast power over others believed should be their prerogatives. Its leaders had no scruples about enlisting white supremacy to achieve capital supremacy. And today, knowing that the majority does not share their goals and would stop them if they understood the endgame, the team of paid operatives seeks to win
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WORD !!!
. Paul Duke, “Dixie Eyes a Virginia County, First to Shut All Its Public Schools,” Wall Street Journal, December 1, 1959. The chilling story has received extensive coverage. Among the most illuminating recent scholarly works are Bonastia, Southern Stalemate and Titus, Brown’s Battleground. For a more memoir-like treatment, see Green, Something Must Be Done About Prince Edward County.
