Koch Brother Breaks From Republican Platform – Endorses Tax Increases, Military Cuts and Marriage Eq

[Emit]

In a surprise revelation today on Politico, one half of the right-wing finance machine known as the Koch brothers, broke ranks with the GOP’s new platform, as well as the various pledges the party has signed. David Koch, the second son of John Birch Society founder Fred Koch, revealed a division with the right-wing movement he has bankrolled for decades.

While serving as a delegate for New York at the convention, he made his comments at a reception held by his front organization ‘Americans for Prosperity.’ Things he said include:

I believe in gay marriage
I think it’s essential to be able to achieve spending reductions and maybe it’s going to require some tax increases. We got to come close to balancing the budget, otherwise we’re in a terrible deep problem.

He also came out for military budget cuts, and a withdrawal from the middle east and its oil reserves.

David has already begun consolidating power, trying to create a self-feeding network of organizations, co-opting existing Libertarian groups to give them legitimacy. David is considered the more pragmatic of the brothers in many circles, and less likely to engage with in-fighting as older brother Charles.

When asked about his earlier candidacy for the Libertarian party, David had something more revealing:

The Libertarian Party is a great concept. I love the ideals, but it got too far off the deep end, and so I dropped out.

~snip~

http://www.addictinginfo.org/2012/08/31/koch-brother-breaks-from-republican-platform-endorses-tax-increases-military-cuts-and-marriage-equality/

[Champion Jack]

1. There are snowmen in Hell

[reformist2]

2. Is he repositioning for an all-Dem gov't???

[_Liann_]

3. Why not go straight to the source? Koch: He Built That Tea Party Mafia

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0812/80483.html?hp=f2

But what is the REAL KOCH story?

[Emit]

4. Because I like Addicting Information better than Politico

AI could use the foot traffic.

[johnd83]

5. Wait... what??

He was one of the people supporting this madness financially?