Charles Koch donated $500K to Ryan days after GOP tax plan passed

[Zippyjuan]

http://thehill.com/homenews/campaig...d-500k-to-ryan-days-after-gop-tax-plan-passed

Follow the money. Who benefits?

GOP mega-donor Charles Koch and his wife donated around $500,000 to Speaker Paul Ryan’s (R-Wis.) joint fundraising committee, just days after the GOP tax plan was passed.

Koch made the donation 13 days after the plan was passed, which lowers the corporate tax rate and cuts estate taxes, HuffPost reported.

He and his wife also gave $237,000 each to the National Republican Congressional Committee on the same day, according to HuffPost.
Koch and his brother David Koch were both major advocates for the tax plan, pouring millions of dollars into efforts to get the legislation passed.

The pair is also planning on spending millions more on a public relations campaign for the plan, according to The Wall Street Journal.

 

[Krugminator2]

Good point. Libertarian Charles Koch, whose business is actually based in the US, is a total hypocrite for wanting to cut the highest corporate income tax rate in the world down to a level that is competitive.

Cui bono, amirite? I can't believe a libertarian supported a completely libertarian policy that made his life better.

 

[angelatc]

Ima gonna come out about $1000 ahead. Thanks for asking.
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[r3volution 3.0]

Good point. Libertarian Charles Koch, whose business is actually based in the US, is a total hypocrite for wanting to cut the highest corporate income tax rate in the world down to a level that is competitive.

Cui bono, amirite? I can't believe a libertarian supported a completely libertarian policy that made his life better.

I too am outraged...

 

[Brian4Liberty]

Well, let's see. We have choices. We can give tax breaks to everyone, which includes some wealthy people, and also stimulate the entire economy and reduce unemployment, or we can do the opposite and give government money to a few extremely wealthy leftists, who then destroy the economy and increase suffering for all.

Such hard choices.

 

[timosman]

Such hard choices.

Does this make Zippy a communist?

 

[r3volution 3.0]

There's nothing wrong with a libertarian supporting the tax cut, but let's not exaggerate its benefits...

It didn't come with a spending cut, so all we're really doing is changing how the government finances itself: less taxing, more borrowing/printing. It also didn't meaningfully simplify the tax code, so we're going to continue wasting a couple hundred billion per year in tax compliance. It probably has some benefit (at least in the short term), for incentive reasons, but it's not the Great Reform that certain toupeed individuals are making it out to be...

 

[timosman]

There's nothing wrong with a libertarian supporting the tax cut, but let's not exaggerate its benefits...

It didn't come with a spending cut, so all we're really doing is changing how the government finances itself: less taxing, more borrowing/printing. It also didn't meaningfully simplify the tax code, so we're going to continue wasting a couple hundred billion per year in tax compliance. It probably has some benefit (at least in the short term), for incentive reasons, but it's not the Great Reform that certain toupeed individuals are making it out to be...

Wrong thread?

 

[Swordsmyth]

This zippy is dumber than the last one.

We all want less government which is good for us as well as everyone else so we all must be evil, the best way to prove how virtuous we are would be to promote communism since that would be bad for us as well as everyone else.

Zippy we are the most "evil" people you will ever meet, there is no hope for our redemption, we revel in our "wickedness", you are wasting your time here, go try to "save souls" on a more receptive forum, perhaps one dedicated to the supporters of McCain.