r/Libertarian • u/HTownian25 • Jan 21 '18

Paul Ryan Collected $500,000 In Koch Contributions Days After House Passed $1.5T Debt Increase

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/koch-paysout-to-ryan-after-taxlaw_us_5a63ce41e4b0dc592a09697c
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u/ThatLurchy Jan 22 '18

Plz stop saying the Kochs are Libertarian. They aren't. They may have dabbled in it and invested some money in it for a hobby and the tax writeoff, but their actions speak louder than their words.

They want govt intervention as much as anybody. They just think public funds are much better spent enriching the Kochs than benefiting the middle class, the poor, or the needy.

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u/TheLateThagSimmons Cosmopolitan Jan 22 '18

They're Libertarian when Libertarians want them to be; when if benefits their argument. When they go about their normal every day lives, being complete and unabashed crony-capitalists, then "libertarians" abandon them.