(December 16, 2014 at 12:29 pm)Heywood Wrote: The reason Libertarians tend to vote republican is because of strategic voting. The reason the Koch brothers lend their financial support to republican candidate is exactly the same. While the Koch brothers would like to see Libertarian candidates elected, that is not going to happen so they would rather see Republicans instead of Democrats.....so they hold their noses and back Republicans.
Nonsense. There are dozens, if not hundreds of small elections that LP candidates would have a good chance in if they were better funded. Considering it's nearly impossible for them to get air time or a place at debates, they get pretty close sometimes. The Koch brothers petty cash fund could change that if they really cared about libertarianism, even the right-leaning kind.
(December 16, 2014 at 11:48 am)Heywood Wrote: The Koch brothers have certainly lobbied to end Ethanol subsidies. I posted a link detailing one attempt. The fact that they haven't been successful in no way means they haven't tried or are not trying now.
Good point. I mean, what can they do? It's not like they're billionaires with dozens of congress critters in their pockets, or didn't have to wait until it was pretty much too late to change the vote to speak up. And there's no way their competitors not getting the same subsidy could turn out to be worth losing the subsidy.
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