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Do you have any evidence for this you'd like to share, or do you just accuse any publications of libertarian viewpoints of being orchestrated by the Kochs?
by XCabbage 8y ago
Do you have any evidence for this you'd like to share, or do you just accuse any publications of libertarian viewpoints of being orchestrated by the Kochs?
- overthemoon 8y agoIt's by folks from Cato Institute, which is a thinktank founded by Charles Koch. OP was a little imprecise, but that's about it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cato_Institute https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cato_Institute
- posixplz 8y agoSeriously? Both authors work for the Cato Institute. The Cato Institute was founded by Charles Koch, and originally called The Charles Koch Foundation. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cato_Institute https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cato_Institute
- refurb 8y agoThe response wasn't that it's not an opinion piece by the Koch brothers, but rather, does the OP have any evidence to suggest the opinion piece is incorrect other than who the author is (why isn't a very convincing argument).
- IvyMike 8y agoThat's not my reading. Can you diagram the original question in a way that makes this apparent?
- XCabbage 8y agoNo, my response was very much meant an expression of skepticism at the idea that there was any connection between the piece and the Kochs. The comments here (that make clear that there is, at least, a loose connection that can be traced between the two) are entirely relevant responses.
- XCabbage 8y agoThanks, that's useful information; I was unaware of the Cato-Koch connection. I'm not sure why the "Seriously?" is there or what I'm supposed to make of it. It seems to me that there's still a considerable gap between a Koch having founded Cato and any opinion piece produced by Cato today being a "Koch opinion piece". A quick Google suggests to me that Cato is far from being under total Koch control - indeed, they've been involved in legal battles with each other in recent history.
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- romed 8y agoYou’re kidding right?
- XCabbage 8y agoNo, I was entirely serious. In future, you may find that you persuade people better by actually presenting some relevant facts (as others have now done) rather than making assertions and then sneering at anyone who asks for an explanation.
- IvyMike 8y agoThe piece was authored by two employees of the Cato institute, which was founded as the Charles Koch Foundation. The Kochs appear to have at least a 50% ownership of the Institute, although as this article says, "who knew a nonprofit can have shareholders?" https://www.forbes.com/sites/lauriebennett/2012/03/02/who-knew-that-cato-had-shareholders/ https://www.forbes.com/sites/lauriebennett/2012/03/02/who-kn...