(January 8, 2015 at 1:13 pm)Parkers Tan Wrote:(January 8, 2015 at 11:19 am)Heywood Wrote: The are against all subsidies including ethanol subsidies....even though they benefit from them. They are against solar energy subsidies. The Koch brothers want to end all subsidies.
I wish the government would give me seventy million, but I guess that's not gonna happen, because I don't own any congressmen.
Another source has it even higher: http://subsidytracker.goodjobsfirst.org/...industries
Somehow, their opposition to subsidies hasn't manifested itself in their corporate behavior. I wonder why?
(January 8, 2015 at 1:04 pm)Heywood Wrote: The Koch brothers do not like any government subsidies so they actually lobby against them. That being said they don't reject them either because that would put them at a competitive disadvantage. The mortgage interest deduction is a subsidy to those who have mortgages at the expense of those who do not have mortgages. I find this to be unfair, yet I still claim the deduction because it would be stupid not too.
Kind of like Ayn Rand -- bitterly opposed to "moochers" and Social Security and public health care, until she was broke and ill.
She sure lined up at the trough then, now didn't she?
I don't like many provisions of the patriot act, but if some information comes from those provisions that helps the government prevent a terrorist attack, should I say the government shouldn't have acted on that information as a matter of principle? I wouldn't.....would you?
The Koch brother take the subsidy because it would be stupid not too. Just because they take the subsidy doesn't mean they support it any more than you or I support the patriot act just because we benefitted from it in someway.
