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Cato is far from a libertarian think tank, its a Republican think tank, originally it was the Charles Koch Foundation.
by wheelerwj 7y ago
Cato is far from a libertarian think tank, its a Republican think tank, originally it was the Charles Koch Foundation.
- carapace 7y agoI'm quoting TFA.
- monoideism 7y agoSorry, but Cato is definitely a libertarian leaning think tank (one of their few redeeming qualities, in my mind): - Penn and Teller, the original small l libertarians, are in the board at Cato. That pair wouldn't be caught dead associating with some neocon or populist outfit. - Cato created and maintain libertarianism.org - first sentence in Wikipedia's description of Cato: "The Cato Institute is an American libertarian think tank headquartered in Washington, D.C."
- gyc 7y agoWe can quibble about the exact political slant of Cato, but it definitely takes policy positions that are more libertarian than mainstream Republican positions. See, for example, the drug war.