This man has been messing with electoral politics and funding ALEC for 50 of his 82 years. His father did the same by building and funding the John Birch Society. Now he says he is sorry? The only thing he is sorry about is he did not crush every human rights struggle and destroy every union movement. If he is really sorry he should give away about 5 billion dollars. He needs to create a fund that will help working class Americans. Until he does that F him.
He's not sorry - he's doing PR to make him and his company look better. He comes out every few years and says he's sorry, or they were wrong - he's gaslighting.
That quote was first mentioned in 1990 and popularized by Marvin Simkin, "Individual Rights", Los Angeles Times, 12 January. 1992. Copy that and put that in Google, see the original article for yourself. Do you hold Los Angeles Times on such a pedestal? That quote is by a man who favors dictatorship over freedom.
These are the guys that create think tanks that convince working class friends of mine that govt is bad and “the market” and private power is king. He is trying to launder his reputation.
That sort of people, like Koch, are narcisistic, self loving, scary people. It s ok if you have money, you can provide for employment and good deeds, but unfurtunately people with money go crazy. It s better to have less money and have good norms and values.
@@Yllawish Just because you have less money doesn't mean you have good values and are more humble. I have seen too many people who are poor and are selfish.
He's talking about instituting a fixed percentage tax rate across all income levels. Sounds fair, right? Until you consider the fact that a 10% tax on the income of someone making $50,000 a year would require them to make a number of adjustments to an already constrained budget. Meanwhile, taking 10% of a millionaire's income (or even someone making $100,000) wouldn't impede their ability to live comfortably AT ALL. And he's claiming that he wouldn't benefit from a system like that?? Are you kidding me???!!!
Well, technically if you combine all of his other policy changes it would be easier to make a business so somehow the people who earn 50,000$ would be able to make more money. But that’s in theory.
People who make less than a 150000 get taxed to the hilt and have fewer options to get rebates than huge conglomerates that can go without paying any taxes granted based on the investment they make but the current system isn't as rosy as you'd think
This interview is such a crock. The interviewer gives stern faces and asks "tough questions," but then fails to really counter any of the weaksauce responses that Charles gives. Charles' strategy seems to be some combination of lampshading and gaslighting and the interviewer ultimately just kind of accepts them at face value. The end result is that all of these statements which are either bald-faced lies or displaying absurd cognitive dissonance, which would only take a modicum of effort to point out, just go without any kind of rebuttal. If anything, it's more of an advertisement. "What has been your return on investment? What have you gotten for it?" Seriously!? Is this all we expect of the media these days?
It's so weird to hear him talk like this. He's speaking like he has no idea he's at the heart of the problem that he's complaining about. How can he just think he's doing good?
Mental illness due to radical ideology. These people spend a lot of time justifying their own pathological greed and viewpoint. It's like fundamentalists who try to use science to justify biblical narrative. Also, denial.
It’s doublespeak. Disarming, isn’t it? You listen to it and the natural tone with which the lies are delivered makes you wonder if you’re the one that’s wrong. Like everything else this guy does, he’s a next level predator with it.
He says he want less government and less tax but in reality he want to tax his costumers who uses renewable energy. (He (his company) wanted to charge a $20 fee for houses with solar panels)
He seems to be a straight shooter with a sense of logic and ethics. His eyes don’t show darkness, but a sense of justice. To judge without knowing the full story I think is not a good idea. To judge from emotions or because a person read it somewhere isn’t quite it either. We can do better.
Snakes are like that. He refuses to pull Koch Industries from Russia over the Ukraine invasion. Too much money to be made. Dead civilians, meh. He will no doubt give 100s of millions to the GOP to make up for it though. And McConnell will be more than happy to take it.
This guy sounds amazing but the problem with his 'anti-regulation, anti-big business' stance is that he heads up one of the wealthiest businesses on the planet which is actively writing anti-solar regulations. This guy talks a good game, but everything he does is the exact opposite. Solar energy, for example. The Koch brothers are trying to regulate the sun out of existence in Florida, 'the sunshine state'. Charles Koch is a con artist. He sounds like a nice old man helping to foster small businesses, but he's a vicious killer the most promising business on the planet, solar energy. The reason being is that solar energy and other renewables are inherently democratic and distributed (not to mention clean), while fossil fuel is centralized, dirty and inherently anti-democratic, enriching a few people while the rest of us pay.
theres free energy too. why not just come out and promote this clean and better technology? oh because its not profitable to you th-cam.com/video/VeXVsybEQPQ/w-d-xo.html
He is evil and he is delusional. He literally thinks he is a visionary like Protestant reformer Martin Luther. That is the extent of his narcissistic personality disorder. If you read "Democracy in Chains," you will get the entire picture of what this man is all about. He is a true believer in James Buchananist notions of the economy, which means he is a crackpot and evil to the core. The biggest problem is he has obscene wealth that he has used to try and buy opinion.
Well, Solar Energy still uses lithium ion batteries which causes wasteful residue after long period of usage and the production of lithium batteries isn't doing good either for the environment, it isn't exactly as clean as what the media says but relative to oil and gas, it is a major improvement and a better alternative.
"You succeed by helping others improve their lives" 1. He proceeds from the false premise that everyone is playing on a level playing field. They're not.. people like him make sure that the field stays tilted in favor of the rich and influential. If he really believed this, he'd be donating to politicians who support public education, affordable healthcare, stop polluting the planet, and expanding social programs that help level the playing field for people who've gotten an raw deal from society and self-serving politicians looking to line their own pockets, and advance their own agendas. 2. If he really wants to improve people's lives, he'd spend his money on things that enrich others' lives, not his own.
@@JK-gu3tl I've done plenty of research about the Kochs, having first been made aware of them in one of Molly Ivins' books back during GW Bush administration, and more from many other books later. What the Koch's do is put their money in a foundation so they can legally fund things like art centers and hospital wings and then use the rest to funnel into politics as dark money. Their 'philanthropy' always winds up benefitting them politically in one way or another. Period. Don't tell me to do my research - it's already done and continues.
@@katepanthera7265 Do they offer board spots to retired politicians? Do they pay former presidents millions for boring speeches? Do they support wars that get kids killed?
@@JK-gu3tl No, they're just trying to destroy democracy and install an oligarchy - pouring billions of dollars over the past 30+ years into dark money groups, to ensure minority rule; they're heavily involved in funding so-called 'grassroots' groups that go around and gin up opposition to political candidates and ballot measures. They want to pay no taxes, receive any govt spending that's cut to go back to them, they are involved in funding voter suppression laws; they are parasites on the economy. So besides, that, yeah - I guess that's nowhere as bad as paying a former president to make a boring speech. They're a direct threat to democracy. www.salon.com/2013/10/26/dark_money_groups_linked_to_koch_brothers_pay_1_million_in_fines_partner/ movcac.com/the-koch-brothers-purveyors-of-dark-money/ th-cam.com/video/B6zSy5lAxd0/w-d-xo.html
"its cronyism"..lol. I live in a liberal area and we fight for small business's and their success. The only time I've ever seen or heard of business's who have a problem coming to the area a huge companies like Home Depot and Costco. For good reason. Ever since they put in that stupid super Walmart in town a few years back this town has slowly dried up. Empty buildings all over town. Sad.
you would never believe anyone just because of their wealth. Be a bit more selective and less emotional bordering on jealousy. Not everyone has evil intention even when they personally have profited from good brainpower.
Right the guy with a high school education is supposed to compete with the top 10 attorneys from Harvard. Because we would be going against his whole team. Thus guy is not an honest person.
@@notgiven3114 What are you talking about? He IS what "libertarianism" is all about because he and his brother David basically invented it by taking James Buchanan's nutball economic ideas and creating a movement with them. When you mention "libertarianism," you are talking Kochism. They are one and the same.
Valley of the Rogue are you dumb? Basically invented it? Ummmm have you ever heard of the founding fathers? Well clearly not, if you did you’d realize how dumb you just sounded. Off the charts dumb!
Well, then, stop giving politicians money to pass legislation. Paul Ryan Collected $500,000 In Koch Contributions Days After House Passed Tax Law (huffingtonpost)
jannmutube well that’s not true hahahahaha. Someone needs a lesson on political donations. 500,000 hahahahaha man if that’s not the funniest thing I’ve heard all week. The huffington post? Really?
That moment when you realize the people rigging the system also profit from lying to you about who is responsible for the injustice. There's a reason there's so much propaganda against him. Those billionaires who silently take part and say nothing are never attacked.
Sounds like he's making the argument for goodies by saying, "we don't want anyone else to get a toothache, so we're just gonna take all this candy to save the rest of you from yourselves."
'it is hard to find in politics somebody with the courage to go against what's popular and do what they believe and help people and improve their lives" --- an unconscious Koch Brother feels the BERN!
He's admitting that the system is rigged and it's people who need to be a speaker wheel. We need to be a loader voice. The government isn't setting the rules because they aren't being pressured to.
Well at least he admitted it. But still there are countless conservatives who say the exact opposite. Take it from one of the most successful corporate giants in the world. He says he is not responsible or to blame but at the same time puts millions of dollars into campaigns of people he supports. Obviously his biggest fear is that some one will be elected who will enforce environmental standards and not let them pollute the country without impunity.
Even tax? That's just old age getting to his head. Crazy talk....if there were an even tax bracket it'd either obliterate everything under the upper class, or if it was payable through all classes, wind end up not being enough for the government. Because of their insane military budget.
They know their industry, this lifestile, this level of wealth and inequality is unsustainable, this is the investment they make on american politics and pubblic opinion, to be some more time seemingly sustainable, they make it to not change this unsustainable status quo.
@Shubham Bhushan that's a typical tactic of the left. Demonize your opponent so you don't have to come up with an actual substantive argument. Way to be brainless and irrational. This is why your party is failing.
There are two damn books on the matter, kockland and dark money. You'll find all the arguments there. Now I were rational and enlightened I'd Read those books before shouting "No arguments"
@@ShubhamBhushanCC you still haven't offered anything compelling to support your original comment. For example, you surely know he was a classical liberal if you know anything about the man. Yet he comes under attack most often by liberals, unlike extreme left wingnut George Soros, who shares very little common ground with liberals, but is supported by those who only understand politics as right vs left. Mr. Koch lobbied against corporate welfare and funded many liberal causes and groups. There are many more than 2 sources of information about the man, and it's worthwhile to check the writer's bias before wasting your time on a book. You've told me nothing about Koch. Do you know any information about the authors whose books you claim to have read?
Q: there too much money in politics? A: No, there is too much politics! Exactly! Remove all of the unnecessary politics and regulations which make it very difficult for anyone who is not established to get ahead. Also, get the Federal Reserve to stop printing money which devalues the dollar and eats up the little remaining dollars that the average American has.
Government policy isn’t the problem, it just needs to be targeted in a way that prevents people like him from having unequal influence over the policy enacted. Back when unions and strict pro working class government policy ran the US things were great (1950s-1970s).
"To allow the market mechanism to be the sole director of the fate of human beings and their natural environment…would result in the demolition of society.” ~ Karl Polanyi, 1944 “In 1945 or 1950 if you had seriously proposed any of the ideas and policies in today’s standard neo-liberal toolkit, you would have been laughed off the stage or sent off to the insane asylum.” ~ Susan George, political scientist Do not confuse the economic - oikos nomia - the norms of running home and community with chrematistics - krema atos - the accumulation of money. ~ Aristotle
He is hated without fundament. He is just another player in the system. Politicians are the real problem, they sell the favors, they exist for that. And, they don't produce anything of value.
Charles de Ganahl Koch - as of March ranked as the 8th-richest person in the world with an estimated net worth of $50.5 billion - with extrordinary candor openly admits the U.S. political; economic, and financial syatems are rigged in favor of the wealthy, and not sustainable. While he and his brother, David Hamilton Koch - as of June 2018 ranked as the 11th-richest person in the world with an estimated net worth of $51 billion - and their privately held multinational mega-corporation Koch Industries, Inc. - in which each have 42% ownership - continue to extract unconscionable profits, in this interview he maintains he is fighting the system which benefits them. During the time he claims to have been opposing the system their business has tripled in size, clearly meaning that whatever they are doing is not changing the disparity between the wealthy and lower income workers and consumers. So either he is extremely naive - highly unlikely - or this interview is a cleverly contrived propaganda tool to distract the public from their complicity with a rotten system they do not control, but certainly continue to hypocritically and whole-heartedly participate in. .- facebook.com/AlwaysAwake/posts/10157018827519484
I unfortunately agree when he says its jot rigged by him. He is just one of the many people rigging the system for their benefit... is he the biggest mole sure but not the only mole
"It's corporate welfare", and we're going to keep people in government positions to make sure it stays that way. And for a better understanding of what I say but do not do, read my book, available at book stores for $29.95. We donate a lot of our money (for tax deduction purposes). Just out of curiosity I wonder what their employees earn.
No, he doesn't, he wants a free market because a free market is more dynamic and you can make more money in it if you're a good businessman. In the current market you have to take advantage of the cronyism, tax breaks, protectionism etc to make money. This model supports bad businesses but is bad for good ones. He feels confident his is a good one, so he wants a free market to compete freely. Coincidentally, those same measures would help the average american have a better shot at becoming rich too. But he's in it for himself. You could've understood that if you had tried to listen to the interview. Perhaps you did, and you're just too stupid to understand it. But more likely is that you didn't even bother, because your envy and jealousy at someone who succeeded in ways you never will got the better of you.
@@muresandani Ah yes, the envy card. Do you envy the thief that steals your stuff? That's what people like Charles Koch are doing. They've created a system that you have no choice but to participate in yet when you do participate, you still get screwed. He and his dead brother have created a vast propaganda network that convinces average people that somehow, a system that strongly advantages the already rich with somehow benefit them too. Sounds like you've bought it.
@@jimlambrick3248 How exactly did anyone force you to participate in the "system" ? By not giving you your necessities for free so you can hang out all day and do nothing? And what system exactly do you mean? Civilization? Or are you one of those idiots who thinks the reason their life sucks is because of capitalism? Because let me tell you, as someone from a former socialist country, capitalism is by far the best system for structuring markets ever invented by mankind. The suffering my people endured under morons who thought capitalists were just greedy and business owners were not needed for businesses to succeed cannot be put into words. Unfortunately ignorant frustrated people on the internet, almost all from the US or the west in general, think capitalism is terrible even though they've never seen life in a non-capitalistic country. Dunning Kruger effect for ya'.
@@muresandani The system that we participate in requires that you prepare all your life for retirement by putting aside money in financial instruments that should at the very least, protect against inflation. Ideally, they should provide growth. People like Koch have gamed the system so that the average person can easily lose what they've invested. You sound like some kind of a libertarian jackass when you assume that my life sucks. Chances are very high that I've earned more money and have a better life that you ever will. Out of curiosity, what socialist country did you come from? And what kind of quick-buck business are you in now?
I understood the Libertarian perspective of The Koch's or Ron Paul but like most libertarians they are short sighted and ideological. The blind spot is that don't understand what all the forms of socialism really are. In general they believe it is either government control over the means of production like USSR. Or they believe it is FDR Keynesian economic models. Another model are cooperatives. Their are 29,000 cooperatives that are structured in different ways in every sector of the US economy. Not for profit Health Insurance cooperatives would increase quality and bring prices down. But in order for not-for-profit Health insurance cooperative to exist they would need capital to start up and need to develop a sustainable model. If you describe this model they may find it reasonable. If you tell them it's socialism they reject it. But it is the original socialist model. The other thing they don't seem to really understand is what the general welfare clause really means. They are right, Jefferson opposed big government control and objected to the way other politicians of his day interpreted "general welfare". But Jefferson also had a proposal that money from federal taxes should go towards building interstate highways (which he implemented) and should also go to education. But his ideas of education were specific he felt the money should be evenly distributed to the communities to educate their children. He also firmly believed in a rational enlightenment education. So Jefferson favored federal taxes to be evenly distributed to promote the general welfare, but would oppose government restrictive and dictatorial policies like "no child left behind". A Health cooperative could be subsidized by the government through individual grants per capita but then the government has no say in how the cooperative is run. The shareholders which are the people control that. The United States has the perfect governmental foundation to both increase citizen welfare and preserve the greatest liberties and freedoms. The left tend to underestimate government control and interventionism and the libertarians and the right tend to have two much faith in corporatism. But their are other models that actually empower citizens.
The co-operative model only works because it is voluntary. If you make it mandatory, you're basically forcing people to bear risk that they shouldn't necessarily have to. Also, I find that historically, family owned businesses are much better than co-ops (just look at Switzerland, they basically don't experience recessions at all).
@@FastlaneProductions1 What’s up with Americans claiming things that are commonplace in Europe “just don’t work in reality.” You do this with socialized healthcare too. Dishonesty… Find your bonafides
This man was born into this. Even he is aware the government is flawed. If everyone sees it but only films it && discusses issues but never proactively does anything we can benefit from, we're just living for entertainment purposes. We entertain conversation that leads to like nothing. Almost nothing. if you burn down the house, but you sprayed a fire extinguisher... you're not a hero, you're an arsonist lol. This guy with his brother owns my country, I'm not mad at that. It's just that we as people have been voting with our currency all along but really think that democracy is what we speak with...
We would like to get all the money out (of politics) - Well, hmm - NYT - In 2012, the Kochs' network spent just under $400 million, an astonishing sum at the time. The $889 million spending goal for 2016 would put it on track to spend nearly as much as the campaigns of each party's presidential nominee. I guess I think Mr. Koch is full of bull. And me saying so is like pissing on a 5 alarm blaze.
if he wants to improve Americans people life, he needs to support universal/single payer medical system. without donors and big money big reform is impossible. The medical system in US failed to provide basic consumer protection and must be reformed. Well known problem: pre-existing conditions denial, bankruptcy of people/families who had medical insurance, problems with payment for out of network providers in emergencies, fine prints in contact, vague contract that only lawyers can understand, very low annual limit, service denial, etc. Add to above the highest prices in the world we are paying for services and medications.
He is a James Buchanan (the economist) cultist, and therefore he believes in NO government AT ALL outside of police and military because wealth equals "freedom." This means the "right" of the rich to step on the necks of everybody else and never let that foot off. Never mind what the cost to others. Not caring about others is the very definition of sociopathy, and Charles Koch has it by the truckload. He is not playing with a full deck and never has. His dad, Fred Koch, was a founder of the John Birch Society, and that explains much of why the brothers were and are so screwed up.
It´s all about the hierarchy. Life in general is not "improving" in fact, with all of this force we are experiencing from without, one could claim this is not a realm dedicated to life, at all.
It's amazing how the media creates a narrative and the people take it and run with it; essentially painting people as monsters. He isn't what they make him out to be.
I strongly believe that only a military government can make law and order in America. Look at this old guy who has billions of dollars .What is his contribution to the american society?????Is he happy with his life that is almost finished?????Would he acknowledge his mistakes so that other people can learn and do better?????Would he be 100% honest so that other people can learn from his life???????Or is it that he has not learned anything or that he is not honest.
We've lost an angel who lived on earth. See how he opposed everything he was part of. I reach out with thoughts and prayers to his supporters of disturbed minds and assholes.
In 1980, David Koch ran for the libertarian VP and lost with a measly 1% of the vote. He ran on this agenda and it's what they are pushing today. “We urge the repeal of federal campaign finance laws, and the immediate abolition of the despotic Federal Election Commission.” “We favor the abolition of Medicare and Medicaid programs.” “We oppose any compulsory insurance or tax-supported plan to provide health services, including those which finance abortion services.” “We also favor the deregulation of the medical insurance industry.” “We favor the repeal of the fraudulent, virtually bankrupt, and increasingly oppressiveSocial Security system. Pending that repeal, participation in Social Security should be made voluntary.” “We propose the abolition of the governmental Postal Service. The present system, in addition to being inefficient, encourages governmental surveillance of private correspondence. Pending abolition, we call for an end to the monopoly system and for allowing free competition in all aspects of postal service.” “We oppose all personal and corporate income taxation, including capital gains taxes.” “We support the eventual repeal of all taxation.” “As an interim measure, all criminal and civil sanctions against tax evasion should be terminated immediately.” “We support repeal of all law which impede the ability of any person to find employment, such as minimum wage laws.” “We advocate the complete separation of education and State. Government schools lead to the indoctrination of children and interfere with the free choice of individuals. Government ownership, operation, regulation, and subsidy of schools and colleges should be ended.” “We condemn compulsory education laws and we call for the immediate repeal of such laws.” “We support the repeal of all taxes on the income or property of private schools, whether profit or non-profit.” “We support the abolition of the Environmental Protection Agency.” “We support abolition of theDepartment of Energy.” “We call for the dissolution of all government agencies concerned with transportation, including the Department of Transportation.” “We demand the return of America's railroad system to private ownership. We call for the privatization of the public roads and national highway system.” “We specifically oppose laws requiring an individual to buy or use so-called "self-protection" equipment such as safety belts, air bags, or crash helmets.” “We advocate the abolition of the Federal Aviation Administration.” “We advocate the abolition of the Food and Drug Administration.” “We support an end to all subsidies for child-bearing built into our present laws, including all welfare plans and the provision of tax-supported services for children.” “We oppose all government welfare, relief projects, and ‘aid to the poor’ programs. All these government programs are privacy-invading, paternalistic, demeaning, and inefficient. The proper source of help for such persons is the voluntary efforts of private groups and individuals.” “We call for the privatization of the inland waterways, and of the distribution system that brings water to industry, agriculture and households.” “We call for the repeal of the Occupational Safety and Health Act.” “We call for the abolition of the Consumer Product Safety Commission.” “We support the repeal of all state usury laws.” Can you imagine what the US would be like if they succeed with their agenda?
Bullshit, he hires illegals because they are cheaper to employ and have welfare subsidizing their incomes. He deliberately profits off of the government taking money out of my pocket and putting it into the pocket of his Central American free range slaves. Didn't his chicken plant in Mississippi just get raided by Ice Andover 240 illegals were being employed by him?
He invented "libertarianism" along with his brother David. You can't talk about "libertarianism" and leave the Kochs out. They invented it using the nutjob economist James Buchanan's ideas of basically no government at all except for military and police. Buchanan in turn came up with his nutty ideas as a direct result of Brown v. Board of Education. It is all there in the book, "Democracy in Chains."
If what the republican party is doing right now, then based on what Mr. Koch says, he is opposed to them. If I follow the money, where does it go? Be honest Mr. Koch. Remember, whenever you put “but” in a sentence, you are looking at the issue from the wrong end.
Listen to the man take out the tax loops and just give the rich a permanent tax break....see no need for any more incentive for rich ,I'm telling you that why he's a mad genius.
+Adasha Stewart Obviously you didn't watch the interview. He's advocating for getting rid of all the built-in advantages rich corporate entities have in order to level the playing field for people getting started.
If you actually read his book and did some independent research on Mr. Koch you'd actually learn a lot about him and who he actually is compared to what the media has told you about him. I don't see you complaining about George Soros
He's intelligent, and also pure evil. I've read Kochland, Dark Money, the whole gamut of long-form journalism about him. He is pure fucking evil but thinks he's a white knight.
Yeah, a deep thinker who has come to the conclusion of “just deregulate everything.” Totally doesn’t have those opinions because he owns a business in a very regulated sector. Not looking out for himself at all. Nope. He’s a friend of the working class. That’s why he would donate money to good causes instead of investing to accumulate wealth if he was a billionaire!- ehr..-
Like the way he thinks, he basically told us we can too can get “in” the money game but due to our positions its going take more time. Tax shelters help but limit your spending but they do cut your taxes in the long run. You just need enough to sustain plus proper placement of your money within these shelters. Its fiat until you can turn into it into a commodity or asset. However that doesn’t mean get a shelter, stack it then yank it to go get a freakin lambo. This game sucks but I like what he’s saying. He playing the game but at least he’s throwing free “nuggets” to us to get in too.
JOnTHeMOnSoon Because to him and other libertarians it’s common sense. If you create a flat tax you reduce the ability for any single organization to create a monopoly through regulations that really just prevent smaller organizations from growing and competing with them.
Rod96 respectfully, I think the conclusion is pretty silly; what takes more money from the poor, ‘maybe’ raising some prices that the rich was actually going to reinvest in their companies, or taxing the poor directly? With your assumption, raising taxes on the rich to supplement the poor and middle class gives the possibility of either providing money to the poor, or, in some rare scenario where the company actually needed to reinvest that money to keep prices low, doing at worst nothing because the supplementation of the poor balances out with higher prices of goods. Meanwhile, not raising taxes on the rich, and supplementing progressive taxes for higher taxes on the poor guarantees the worst case scenario for the poor where them getting higher purchasing power through ‘trickle-down’ is the exception and not the rule. Secondly, the assumption is entirely wrong anyway if you’re looking at the type of progressive system for say Eisenhower had in place, because any investment in production capital and business expansion was written off in taxes anyway, so this system guaranteed the lowest cost of goods and highest purchasing power for workers.
@@zekea7215 If the taxed money goes from being invested into a company and generating more wealth long term (to then benefit consumers) to someone with higher consumption spending then you are, in effect (at absolute best), transferring wealth from people in the future to people in the present, with a significant net reduction (due to reduction in investment). The fundamental basis for progressive taxation is misguided.
@@indigo3796 what about aggregate demand driving production as demonstrated by the failed demand in the Great Depression and other recessionary periods, and also in our current economy since share buybacks have been deregulated, most employers just reinvest all of their profits in buying shares rather than raising wages or investing in production capital. Since the collapse of Bretton woods, inflation adjusted median wages have had a net drop in the last 50 years, as well as minimum wages meanwhile the ‘GDP growth’ has been predominantly in business and financial services and financial derivatives, while manufacturing declines.
Corporate welfare does not benefit working class or needy Americans. We need to eliminate financial support to corporations and their excessive greed if we are to have a true democracy, otherwise we become a corporate oligarchy and democracy becomes just a word. This country should not tolerate conditions that afflict the poor. This country should not support corporate welfare and corporate greed. The disparity between the haves and the have not should be obliterated . We need fairness. Corporations are entities not people. The welfare of our people and our democracy should be the first priority....trickle down theories are bogus and harmful to a productive society. Education is primary. Not everyone needs or wants a philosophically based education but education provision for all should be established so that training to work and succeed is available and meets the needs of all. It should be an individual choice made available to all. We are beyond disgusted with self serving politicians. The Republican Party needs a complete overhaul. Currently, they are leading us to the abyss of democratic annihilation and the installation of a corporate oligarchy. This not the vision of our forefathers. SEN. Bernie Sanders is on the right track and so is SEN. Elizabeth Warren Trump is the enemy of democracy and freedom and needs to be voted out. He has already caused much damage to the 99% and will continue to do if he remains unchecked. He is the current scourge and more will follow if we allow it ...his very poor choice for SCOTUS is just one example if his inability to be a president for all. His policies re immigration is not only disgusting but harmful to us all. If we do not vote out the harmful elements of the Republican Party , we are doomed. Leadership means listening to our people not ramming down our throats inappropriate candidates like Kavanaugh and issuing tge dictum that "thus will all blow over" indicating the populous is too stupid to remember .WE ARE NOT! Current republican leadership in the Senate is a disgraceful example of not representing American values. Morality, truth and honor is gasping last breaths under this republican leadership. VOTE THEM OUT. We WILL NOT FORGET!
This man has been messing with electoral politics and funding ALEC for 50 of his 82 years.
His father did the same by building and funding the John Birch Society.
Now he says he is sorry?
The only thing he is sorry about is he did not crush every human rights struggle and destroy every union movement.
If he is really sorry he should give away about 5 billion dollars.
He needs to create a fund that will help working class Americans.
Until he does that F him.
He's not sorry - he's doing PR to make him and his company look better. He comes out every few years and says he's sorry, or they were wrong - he's gaslighting.
Democracy has been defined like this. " It's like two wolves and a sheep voting on whats for dinner."
@Shoestring Tom yep but sheeps who are also wolfs never realized they were wolfs because old never let them.
hmm... real democracy wouldn't be 2000 sheeps and a wolf voting on whats for dinner?
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That quote was first mentioned in 1990 and popularized by Marvin Simkin, "Individual Rights", Los Angeles Times, 12 January. 1992.
Copy that and put that in Google, see the original article for yourself.
Do you hold Los Angeles Times on such a pedestal? That quote is by a man who favors dictatorship over freedom.
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These are the guys that create think tanks that convince working class friends of mine that govt is bad and “the market” and private power is king.
He is trying to launder his reputation.
Says the guy whose companies fire his workers right before they are entitled to take retirement pay.
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D Mayfield Source for this claim?
Is there proof to what you say? I really want to know.
That sort of people, like Koch, are narcisistic, self loving, scary people. It s ok if you have money, you can provide for employment and good deeds, but unfurtunately people with money go crazy. It s better to have less money and have good norms and values.
@@Yllawish Just because you have less money doesn't mean you have good values and are more humble. I have seen too many people who are poor and are selfish.
These lunatics aren't for a free market system. They crave a crony capitalist culture xD
Koch is the main culprit his denial is ludicrous
For decades he's been buying off legislators and jurists and then he turns around and tells me the whole system is corrupt. What a fucking scumbag.
He's talking about instituting a fixed percentage tax rate across all income levels. Sounds fair, right? Until you consider the fact that a 10% tax on the income of someone making $50,000 a year would require them to make a number of adjustments to an already constrained budget. Meanwhile, taking 10% of a millionaire's income (or even someone making $100,000) wouldn't impede their ability to live comfortably AT ALL. And he's claiming that he wouldn't benefit from a system like that?? Are you kidding me???!!!
Well, technically if you combine all of his other policy changes it would be easier to make a business so somehow the people who earn 50,000$ would be able to make more money. But that’s in theory.
People who make less than a 150000 get taxed to the hilt and have fewer options to get rebates than huge conglomerates that can go without paying any taxes granted based on the investment they make but the current system isn't as rosy as you'd think
The man understands that this economy is corporatist and krony. True capitalism has competition.
This interview is such a crock. The interviewer gives stern faces and asks "tough questions," but then fails to really counter any of the weaksauce responses that Charles gives. Charles' strategy seems to be some combination of lampshading and gaslighting and the interviewer ultimately just kind of accepts them at face value. The end result is that all of these statements which are either bald-faced lies or displaying absurd cognitive dissonance, which would only take a modicum of effort to point out, just go without any kind of rebuttal. If anything, it's more of an advertisement. "What has been your return on investment? What have you gotten for it?" Seriously!? Is this all we expect of the media these days?
Thanks for drawing my attention to ‘lampshading’.
My diet plan was rigged against me by my refrigerator. Which had nothing to do with me filling it with different flavors of Hawaiian Punch.
Yet he still gets richer! what drives this guy ,how much money does one man need ?
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It's so weird to hear him talk like this. He's speaking like he has no idea he's at the heart of the problem that he's complaining about. How can he just think he's doing good?
he's lying to divert attention to the problem which is literally him
Mental illness due to radical ideology. These people spend a lot of time justifying their own pathological greed and viewpoint. It's like fundamentalists who try to use science to justify biblical narrative. Also, denial.
It’s doublespeak. Disarming, isn’t it? You listen to it and the natural tone with which the lies are delivered makes you wonder if you’re the one that’s wrong. Like everything else this guy does, he’s a next level predator with it.
yep deflection evasion@@ianperfitt
He says he want less government and less tax but in reality he want to tax his costumers who uses renewable energy. (He (his company) wanted to charge a $20 fee for houses with solar panels)
He compains but takes every last penny!!!
He seems to be a straight shooter with a sense of logic and ethics. His eyes don’t show darkness, but a sense of justice. To judge without knowing the full story I think is not a good idea. To judge from emotions or because a person read it somewhere isn’t quite it either. We can do better.
Snakes are like that. He refuses to pull Koch Industries from Russia over the Ukraine invasion. Too much money to be made. Dead civilians, meh. He will no doubt give 100s of millions to the GOP to make up for it though. And McConnell will be more than happy to take it.
How do you decide when you actually KNOW something, by your standards?
This guy sounds amazing but the problem with his 'anti-regulation, anti-big business' stance is that he heads up one of the wealthiest businesses on the planet which is actively writing anti-solar regulations. This guy talks a good game, but everything he does is the exact opposite. Solar energy, for example. The Koch brothers are trying to regulate the sun out of existence in Florida, 'the sunshine state'.
Charles Koch is a con artist. He sounds like a nice old man helping to foster small businesses, but he's a vicious killer the most promising business on the planet, solar energy. The reason being is that solar energy and other renewables are inherently democratic and distributed (not to mention clean), while fossil fuel is centralized, dirty and inherently anti-democratic, enriching a few people while the rest of us pay.
theres free energy too. why not just come out and promote this clean and better technology? oh because its not profitable to you th-cam.com/video/VeXVsybEQPQ/w-d-xo.html
fake news. seriously.
He is evil and he is delusional. He literally thinks he is a visionary like Protestant reformer Martin Luther. That is the extent of his narcissistic personality disorder. If you read "Democracy in Chains," you will get the entire picture of what this man is all about. He is a true believer in James Buchananist notions of the economy, which means he is a crackpot and evil to the core. The biggest problem is he has obscene wealth that he has used to try and buy opinion.
Well, Solar Energy still uses lithium ion batteries which causes wasteful residue after long period of usage and the production of lithium batteries isn't doing good either for the environment, it isn't exactly as clean as what the media says but relative to oil and gas, it is a major improvement and a better alternative.
@@ValleyoftheRogue "He is evil..."
Nice hyperbole there...
"You succeed by helping others improve their lives"
1. He proceeds from the false premise that everyone is playing on a level playing field. They're not.. people like him make sure that the field stays tilted in favor of the rich and influential. If he really believed this, he'd be donating to politicians who support public education, affordable healthcare, stop polluting the planet, and expanding social programs that help level the playing field for people who've gotten an raw deal from society and self-serving politicians looking to line their own pockets, and advance their own agendas.
2. If he really wants to improve people's lives, he'd spend his money on things that enrich others' lives, not his own.
And he does that. Please do your research.
@@JK-gu3tl I've done plenty of research about the Kochs, having first been made aware of them in one of Molly Ivins' books back during GW Bush administration, and more from many other books later.
What the Koch's do is put their money in a foundation so they can legally fund things like art centers and hospital wings and then use the rest to funnel into politics as dark money. Their 'philanthropy' always winds up benefitting them politically in one way or another. Period. Don't tell me to do my research - it's already done and continues.
@@katepanthera7265 Do they offer board spots to retired politicians? Do they pay former presidents millions for boring speeches? Do they support wars that get kids killed?
@@JK-gu3tl No, they're just trying to destroy democracy and install an oligarchy - pouring billions of dollars over the past 30+ years into dark money groups, to ensure minority rule; they're heavily involved in funding so-called 'grassroots' groups that go around and gin up opposition to political candidates and ballot measures.
They want to pay no taxes, receive any govt spending that's cut to go back to them, they are involved in funding voter suppression laws; they are parasites on the economy. So besides, that, yeah - I guess that's nowhere as bad as paying a former president to make a boring speech.
They're a direct threat to democracy.
www.salon.com/2013/10/26/dark_money_groups_linked_to_koch_brothers_pay_1_million_in_fines_partner/
movcac.com/the-koch-brothers-purveyors-of-dark-money/
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"its cronyism"..lol. I live in a liberal area and we fight for small business's and their success. The only time I've ever seen or heard of business's who have a problem coming to the area a huge companies like Home Depot and Costco. For good reason. Ever since they put in that stupid super Walmart in town a few years back this town has slowly dried up. Empty buildings all over town. Sad.
Toni- Smart sexy Woman
i really expected this guy to be a smoother talker.
Ohhhh so he say's he's not corrupt as f**k so we should believe him......Riiiiiiiiight!!!
you would never believe anyone just because of their wealth. Be a bit more selective and less emotional bordering on jealousy. Not everyone has evil intention even when they personally have profited from good brainpower.
A billionaire wants poor people to compete on the same platform as himself and professes that it's only fair. This is sick and disgusting
Right the guy with a high school education is supposed to compete with the top 10 attorneys from Harvard.
Because we would be going against his whole team.
Thus guy is not an honest person.
Koch saying there should be no welfare for the wealthy amazes me. I wish he was asked about Koch pollution or global warming.🤨
@@notgiven3114 What are you talking about? He IS what "libertarianism" is all about because he and his brother David basically invented it by taking James Buchanan's nutball economic ideas and creating a movement with them. When you mention "libertarianism," you are talking Kochism. They are one and the same.
Valley of the Rogue are you dumb? Basically invented it? Ummmm have you ever heard of the founding fathers? Well clearly not, if you did you’d realize how dumb you just sounded. Off the charts dumb!
@@user-qu9ye6po4k you know the difference betwen liberalism and libertanianism?
@@ValleyoftheRogue Except that I've heard more moderate libertarians even, describe the Koch philosophy as something more "akin to anarchism".
IF AMERICANS ONLY KNEW
Gotta love the “need a thief to catch a thief” rationalization. You can rationalize anything like that…unbelievable
Like appointed a Kennedy as a head of SEC?
Well, then, stop giving politicians money to pass legislation.
Paul Ryan Collected $500,000 In Koch Contributions Days After House Passed Tax Law (huffingtonpost)
jannmutube well that’s not true hahahahaha. Someone needs a lesson on political donations. 500,000 hahahahaha man if that’s not the funniest thing I’ve heard all week. The huffington post? Really?
500k is diddly squat compared to the billions they've put towards deregulating patent law, criminal justice reform, and immigration.
That wasn't the interview I was expecting.
Don't you know when you are being lied to ?
@@jaddison1112 Rly?
That moment when you realize the people rigging the system also profit from lying to you about who is responsible for the injustice. There's a reason there's so much propaganda against him. Those billionaires who silently take part and say nothing are never attacked.
"If you can't beat'em, join'em, " then turn around and complain how unfair it all is. Charles Koch in a nutshell.
I fail to see the problem. I guess you would die on a hill for nothing.
Sounds like he's making the argument for goodies by saying, "we don't want anyone else to get a toothache, so we're just gonna take all this candy to save the rest of you from yourselves."
'it is hard to find in politics somebody with the courage to go against what's popular and do what they believe and help people and improve their lives" --- an unconscious Koch Brother feels the BERN!
He's admitting that the system is rigged and it's people who need to be a speaker wheel. We need to be a loader voice. The government isn't setting the rules because they aren't being pressured to.
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Just because he wrote a book doesn't mean he lives by it
HOW ARE U IMPROVING OTHER PEOPLES LIVES, CHUCK????
By giving his fat son more hawaiian shirts with his tax cuts.
KOCHS ARE THE RIGGERS ASK THEM ABOUT REAGAN MENA HOW QUICKLY WE FORGET
he must think very little of people's intellect
Well at least he admitted it. But still there are countless conservatives who say the exact opposite. Take it from one of the most successful corporate giants in the world. He says he is not responsible or to blame but at the same time puts millions of dollars into campaigns of people he supports. Obviously his biggest fear is that some one will be elected who will enforce environmental standards and not let them pollute the country without impunity.
Even tax? That's just old age getting to his head. Crazy talk....if there were an even tax bracket it'd either obliterate everything under the upper class, or if it was payable through all classes, wind end up not being enough for the government. Because of their insane military budget.
They know their industry, this lifestile, this level of wealth and inequality is unsustainable, this is the investment they make on american politics and pubblic opinion, to be some more time seemingly sustainable, they make it to not change this unsustainable status quo.
You want to see the devil? He is right there being interviewed
@Shubham Bhushan that's a typical tactic of the left. Demonize your opponent so you don't have to come up with an actual substantive argument. Way to be brainless and irrational. This is why your party is failing.
@@chasmofsar2691 Charles Koch is an evil bastard. There is no way around it. Of course you don't have an argument, just attack him.
@@ValleyoftheRogue still not an argument, just a slur.
There are two damn books on the matter, kockland and dark money. You'll find all the arguments there. Now I were rational and enlightened I'd Read those books before shouting "No arguments"
@@ShubhamBhushanCC you still haven't offered anything compelling to support your original comment. For example, you surely know he was a classical liberal if you know anything about the man. Yet he comes under attack most often by liberals, unlike extreme left wingnut George Soros, who shares very little common ground with liberals, but is supported by those who only understand politics as right vs left.
Mr. Koch lobbied against corporate welfare and funded many liberal causes and groups. There are many more than 2 sources of information about the man, and it's worthwhile to check the writer's bias before wasting your time on a book. You've told me nothing about Koch. Do you know any information about the authors whose books you claim to have read?
Wow the denial is sooooo fucking deep it's frightening
ABC really disappointing. Who gave you the ad money?
Q: there too much money in politics?
A: No, there is too much politics!
Exactly! Remove all of the unnecessary politics and regulations which make it very difficult for anyone who is not established to get ahead. Also, get the Federal Reserve to stop printing money which devalues the dollar and eats up the little remaining dollars that the average American has.
Government policy isn’t the problem, it just needs to be targeted in a way that prevents people like him from having unequal influence over the policy enacted. Back when unions and strict pro working class government policy ran the US things were great (1950s-1970s).
Ask him how much he pays his average worker vs how much he and his brother make.
Billionaire Koch funding anti-lockdown protests, anti-public health activism, research and messaging
y did you have this n00b interview koch
"To allow the market mechanism to be the sole director of the fate of human beings and their natural environment…would result in the demolition of society.” ~ Karl Polanyi, 1944
“In 1945 or 1950 if you had seriously proposed any of the ideas and policies in today’s standard neo-liberal toolkit, you would have been laughed off the stage or sent off to the insane asylum.” ~ Susan George, political scientist
Do not confuse the economic - oikos nomia - the norms of running home and community with chrematistics - krema atos - the accumulation of money. ~ Aristotle
Koch knows he's going to die. That's why he wants to take everyone with him. Climate change to him is murder suicide. Just a miserable old fuck.
yep because they are
He is hated without fundament. He is just another player in the system. Politicians are the real problem, they sell the favors, they exist for that. And, they don't produce anything of value.
If he was more transparent and provided proof of his proclaimed interest in changing the system I'd be less hesitant to believe him
As in the movie Little Nicky, the Koch Bros should line up for their pineapple, each & every morning, for the rest of eternity
Charles de Ganahl Koch - as of March ranked as the 8th-richest person in the world with an estimated net worth of $50.5 billion - with extrordinary candor openly admits the U.S. political; economic, and financial syatems are rigged in favor of the wealthy, and not sustainable. While he and his brother, David Hamilton Koch - as of June 2018 ranked as the 11th-richest person in the world with an estimated net worth of $51 billion - and their privately held multinational mega-corporation Koch Industries, Inc. - in which each have 42% ownership - continue to extract unconscionable profits, in this interview he maintains he is fighting the system which benefits them. During the time he claims to have been opposing the system their business has tripled in size, clearly meaning that whatever they are doing is not changing the disparity between the wealthy and lower income workers and consumers. So either he is extremely naive - highly unlikely - or this interview is a cleverly contrived propaganda tool to distract the public from their complicity with a rotten system they do not control, but certainly continue to hypocritically and whole-heartedly participate in. .- facebook.com/AlwaysAwake/posts/10157018827519484
Back in 2016 when the interviewer and interviewee didn't sit 12 feet apart!
I unfortunately agree when he says its jot rigged by him. He is just one of the many people rigging the system for their benefit... is he the biggest mole sure but not the only mole
"It's corporate welfare", and we're going to keep people in government positions to make sure it stays that way. And for a better understanding of what I say but do not do, read my book, available at book stores for $29.95. We donate a lot of our money (for tax deduction purposes). Just out of curiosity I wonder what their employees earn.
He is right that the current two tiered system is unsustainable.
What criminal justice reform exactly?
Charles wants it all.
What a saintly man. Just wants to help the American people. LOL
I sense sarcasm.
No, he doesn't, he wants a free market because a free market is more dynamic and you can make more money in it if you're a good businessman. In the current market you have to take advantage of the cronyism, tax breaks, protectionism etc to make money. This model supports bad businesses but is bad for good ones. He feels confident his is a good one, so he wants a free market to compete freely. Coincidentally, those same measures would help the average american have a better shot at becoming rich too. But he's in it for himself.
You could've understood that if you had tried to listen to the interview. Perhaps you did, and you're just too stupid to understand it. But more likely is that you didn't even bother, because your envy and jealousy at someone who succeeded in ways you never will got the better of you.
@@muresandani Ah yes, the envy card. Do you envy the thief that steals your stuff? That's what people like Charles Koch are doing. They've created a system that you have no choice but to participate in yet when you do participate, you still get screwed. He and his dead brother have created a vast propaganda network that convinces average people that somehow, a system that strongly advantages the already rich with somehow benefit them too. Sounds like you've bought it.
@@jimlambrick3248 How exactly did anyone force you to participate in the "system" ? By not giving you your necessities for free so you can hang out all day and do nothing? And what system exactly do you mean? Civilization? Or are you one of those idiots who thinks the reason their life sucks is because of capitalism? Because let me tell you, as someone from a former socialist country, capitalism is by far the best system for structuring markets ever invented by mankind. The suffering my people endured under morons who thought capitalists were just greedy and business owners were not needed for businesses to succeed cannot be put into words.
Unfortunately ignorant frustrated people on the internet, almost all from the US or the west in general, think capitalism is terrible even though they've never seen life in a non-capitalistic country. Dunning Kruger effect for ya'.
@@muresandani The system that we participate in requires that you prepare all your life for retirement by putting aside money in financial instruments that should at the very least, protect against inflation. Ideally, they should provide growth. People like Koch have gamed the system so that the average person can easily lose what they've invested.
You sound like some kind of a libertarian jackass when you assume that my life sucks. Chances are very high that I've earned more money and have a better life that you ever will. Out of curiosity, what socialist country did you come from? And what kind of quick-buck business are you in now?
I understood the Libertarian perspective of The Koch's or Ron Paul but like most libertarians they are short sighted and ideological.
The blind spot is that don't understand what all the forms of socialism really are.
In general they believe it is either government control over the means of production like USSR. Or they believe it is FDR Keynesian economic models.
Another model are cooperatives. Their are 29,000 cooperatives that are structured in different ways in every sector of the US economy.
Not for profit Health Insurance cooperatives would increase quality and bring prices down.
But in order for not-for-profit Health insurance cooperative to exist they would need capital to start up and need to develop a sustainable model.
If you describe this model they may find it reasonable. If you tell them it's socialism they reject it. But it is the original socialist model.
The other thing they don't seem to really understand is what the general welfare clause really means. They are right, Jefferson opposed big government control and objected to the way other politicians of his day interpreted "general welfare".
But Jefferson also had a proposal that money from federal taxes should go towards building interstate highways (which he implemented) and should also go to education.
But his ideas of education were specific he felt the money should be evenly distributed to the communities to educate their children. He also firmly believed in a rational enlightenment education.
So Jefferson favored federal taxes to be evenly distributed to promote the general welfare, but would oppose government restrictive and dictatorial policies like "no child left behind".
A Health cooperative could be subsidized by the government through individual grants per capita but then the government has no say in how the cooperative is run. The shareholders which are the people control that.
The United States has the perfect governmental foundation to both increase citizen welfare and preserve the greatest liberties and freedoms.
The left tend to underestimate government control and interventionism and the libertarians and the right tend to have two much faith in corporatism. But their are other models that actually empower citizens.
The co-operative model only works because it is voluntary. If you make it mandatory, you're basically forcing people to bear risk that they shouldn't necessarily have to. Also, I find that historically, family owned businesses are much better than co-ops (just look at Switzerland, they basically don't experience recessions at all).
@@FastlaneProductions1 What’s up with Americans claiming things that are commonplace in Europe “just don’t work in reality.” You do this with socialized healthcare too. Dishonesty… Find your bonafides
This guy isn’t being honest. I can think of a handful of libertarians I respect, but the Koch brothers say one thing and do another constantly
Well, that should tell you everything you need to know.
His voice is exactly what I imagined it to be
It’s counterproductive to say it’s a “rigged system”. Why would people try if they can’t win? Use language that empowers people !
This reporter should have had more info on what they done
The biggest lies start at 8:19
This man was born into this. Even he is aware the government is flawed.
If everyone sees it but only films it && discusses issues but never proactively does anything we can benefit from, we're just living for entertainment purposes.
We entertain conversation that leads to like nothing. Almost nothing.
if you burn down the house, but you sprayed a fire extinguisher... you're not a hero, you're an arsonist lol.
This guy with his brother owns my country, I'm not mad at that. It's just that we as people have been voting with our currency all along but really think that democracy is what we speak with...
We would like to get all the money out (of politics) - Well, hmm - NYT - In 2012, the Kochs' network spent just under $400 million, an astonishing sum at the time. The $889 million spending goal for 2016 would put it on track to spend nearly as much as the campaigns of each party's presidential nominee. I guess I think Mr. Koch is full of bull. And me saying so is like pissing on a 5 alarm blaze.
TY for brutal honesty sir. Good direction to move in.
R u fool?
if he wants to improve Americans people life, he needs to support universal/single payer medical system. without donors and big money big reform is impossible. The medical system in US failed to provide basic consumer protection and must be reformed. Well known problem: pre-existing conditions denial, bankruptcy of people/families who had medical insurance, problems with payment for out of network providers in emergencies, fine prints in contact, vague contract that only lawyers can understand, very low annual limit, service denial, etc. Add to above the highest prices in the world we are paying for services and medications.
He is a James Buchanan (the economist) cultist, and therefore he believes in NO government AT ALL outside of police and military because wealth equals "freedom." This means the "right" of the rich to step on the necks of everybody else and never let that foot off. Never mind what the cost to others. Not caring about others is the very definition of sociopathy, and Charles Koch has it by the truckload. He is not playing with a full deck and never has. His dad, Fred Koch, was a founder of the John Birch Society, and that explains much of why the brothers were and are so screwed up.
Is it ...says one thing, but does something else? Read Dark Money by Jane Mayer...
It´s all about the hierarchy. Life in general is not "improving" in fact, with all of this force we are experiencing from without, one could claim this is not a realm dedicated to life, at all.
It's amazing how the media creates a narrative and the people take it and run with it; essentially painting people as monsters. He isn't what they make him out to be.
He's human. But it's worth looking into it yourself about the impact of the Koch brothers and other major players
Vendors on the streets are the one hit the must.fines every day.
I strongly believe that only a military government can make law and order in America. Look at this old guy who has billions of dollars .What is his contribution to the american society?????Is he happy with his life that is almost finished?????Would he acknowledge his mistakes so that other people can learn and do better?????Would he be 100% honest so that other people can learn from his life???????Or is it that he has not learned anything or that he is not honest.
We need another "Gateway"
Behind, I have stared into the face of evil and lived. Pure evil is among us and endangers all mankind.
So fake, his company has opposed public transport, and taxes, by the tea party
Public transport sucks. I’m happy he opposed it
Invest only in profitable investment, the most important rule in business.
We've lost an angel who lived on earth. See how he opposed everything he was part of. I reach out with thoughts and prayers to his supporters of disturbed minds and assholes.
His ego got stroked when he said “I’m asking one of the richest guys in the world” 1:20 check it out
In 1980, David Koch ran for the libertarian VP and lost with a measly 1% of the vote. He ran on this agenda and it's what they are pushing today.
“We urge the repeal of federal campaign finance laws, and the immediate abolition of the despotic Federal Election Commission.”
“We favor the abolition of Medicare and Medicaid programs.”
“We oppose any compulsory insurance or tax-supported plan to provide health services, including those which finance abortion services.”
“We also favor the deregulation of the medical insurance industry.”
“We favor the repeal of the fraudulent, virtually bankrupt, and increasingly oppressiveSocial Security system. Pending that repeal, participation in Social Security should be made voluntary.”
“We propose the abolition of the governmental Postal Service. The present system, in addition to being inefficient, encourages governmental surveillance of private correspondence. Pending abolition, we call for an end to the monopoly system and for allowing free competition in all aspects of postal service.”
“We oppose all personal and corporate income taxation, including capital gains taxes.”
“We support the eventual repeal of all taxation.”
“As an interim measure, all criminal and civil sanctions against tax evasion should be terminated immediately.”
“We support repeal of all law which impede the ability of any person to find employment, such as minimum wage laws.”
“We advocate the complete separation of education and State. Government schools lead to the indoctrination of children and interfere with the free choice of individuals. Government ownership, operation, regulation, and subsidy of schools and colleges should be ended.”
“We condemn compulsory education laws and we call for the immediate repeal of such laws.”
“We support the repeal of all taxes on the income or property of private schools, whether profit or non-profit.”
“We support the abolition of the Environmental Protection Agency.”
“We support abolition of theDepartment of Energy.”
“We call for the dissolution of all government agencies concerned with transportation, including the Department of Transportation.”
“We demand the return of America's railroad system to private ownership. We call for the privatization of the public roads and national highway system.”
“We specifically oppose laws requiring an individual to buy or use so-called "self-protection" equipment such as safety belts, air bags, or crash helmets.”
“We advocate the abolition of the Federal Aviation Administration.”
“We advocate the abolition of the Food and Drug Administration.”
“We support an end to all subsidies for child-bearing built into our present laws, including all welfare plans and the provision of tax-supported services for children.”
“We oppose all government welfare, relief projects, and ‘aid to the poor’ programs. All these government programs are privacy-invading, paternalistic, demeaning, and inefficient. The proper source of help for such persons is the voluntary efforts of private groups and individuals.”
“We call for the privatization of the inland waterways, and of the distribution system that brings water to industry, agriculture and households.”
“We call for the repeal of the Occupational Safety and Health Act.”
“We call for the abolition of the Consumer Product Safety Commission.”
“We support the repeal of all state usury laws.”
Can you imagine what the US would be like if they succeed with their agenda?
How will we possibly get our bread if there are no bread lines?
evil
"Lol I'm worth 40 billion dollars and I'm gonna die in the next decade fuck all you guys" - Koch
hmm sounds like something someone who rigged the system would say to me ! BURN EM AT THE STAKE
He's still a human being. Try not to advocate for violence.
This is a true libertarian. Companies like ours
Bullshit, he hires illegals because they are cheaper to employ and have welfare subsidizing their incomes. He deliberately profits off of the government taking money out of my pocket and putting it into the pocket of his Central American free range slaves. Didn't his chicken plant in Mississippi just get raided by Ice Andover 240 illegals were being employed by him?
He invented "libertarianism" along with his brother David. You can't talk about "libertarianism" and leave the Kochs out. They invented it using the nutjob economist James Buchanan's ideas of basically no government at all except for military and police. Buchanan in turn came up with his nutty ideas as a direct result of Brown v. Board of Education. It is all there in the book, "Democracy in Chains."
What has our Democrat controlled congress done about the tax code laws?
If what the republican party is doing right now, then based on what Mr. Koch says, he is opposed to them. If I follow the money, where does it go? Be honest Mr. Koch. Remember, whenever you put “but” in a sentence, you are looking at the issue from the wrong end.
We use to say everything after but is BSHT.
OFF button has the best ratings on TV!
Listen to the man take out the tax loops and just give the rich a permanent tax break....see no need for any more incentive for rich ,I'm telling you that why he's a mad genius.
Don't be fooled by his three degrees from MIT. That doesn't confer "genius." The bastard is pure evil.
Only in America we can interview what should be one of the most wanted people in the world
Yup
+Adasha Stewart Obviously you didn't watch the interview. He's advocating for getting rid of all the built-in advantages rich corporate entities have in order to level the playing field for people getting started.
+Dan Truitt Hes to smart for you understand ,what he really is saying
+Dan Truitt Hes to smart for you understand ,what he really is saying
If you actually read his book and did some independent research on Mr. Koch you'd actually learn a lot about him and who he actually is compared to what the media has told you about him. I don't see you complaining about George Soros
Dang if they said this today they would be silenced.
If you’re so worried then pay your workers more and give more yourself
they why take advantage of it in the first place???
They're masochists for guillotines.
Can't take your money to the grave. No one there to con or buy or manipulate. His money will be no good .
This man is a deep thinker. Easily misunderstood and vilified by a society with the attention span of gnat
He's intelligent, and also pure evil. I've read Kochland, Dark Money, the whole gamut of long-form journalism about him. He is pure fucking evil but thinks he's a white knight.
r u a fool?
Yeah, a deep thinker who has come to the conclusion of “just deregulate everything.” Totally doesn’t have those opinions because he owns a business in a very regulated sector. Not looking out for himself at all. Nope. He’s a friend of the working class. That’s why he would donate money to good causes instead of investing to accumulate wealth if he was a billionaire!- ehr..-
Like the way he thinks, he basically told us we can too can get “in” the money game but due to our positions its going take more time. Tax shelters help but limit your spending but they do cut your taxes in the long run. You just need enough to sustain plus proper placement of your money within these shelters. Its fiat until you can turn into it into a commodity or asset. However that doesn’t mean get a shelter, stack it then yank it to go get a freakin lambo. This game sucks but I like what he’s saying. He playing the game but at least he’s throwing free “nuggets” to us to get in too.
This is public relations propaganda.
Yea he feels so strongly about making everything "fair" that he can barely contain his laughter 😒
JOnTHeMOnSoon Because to him and other libertarians it’s common sense. If you create a flat tax you reduce the ability for any single organization to create a monopoly through regulations that really just prevent smaller organizations from growing and competing with them.
Koch: "1.5 trillion tax benefits to the wealthy" then "every one taxed on the same basis" aka ditching the progressive tax system. lol.
Progressive taxes are actually regressive. High taxes are just transferred to consumers in the way of higher prices.
Rod96 respectfully, I think the conclusion is pretty silly; what takes more money from the poor, ‘maybe’ raising some prices that the rich was actually going to reinvest in their companies, or taxing the poor directly? With your assumption, raising taxes on the rich to supplement the poor and middle class gives the possibility of either providing money to the poor, or, in some rare scenario where the company actually needed to reinvest that money to keep prices low, doing at worst nothing because the supplementation of the poor balances out with higher prices of goods. Meanwhile, not raising taxes on the rich, and supplementing progressive taxes for higher taxes on the poor guarantees the worst case scenario for the poor where them getting higher purchasing power through ‘trickle-down’ is the exception and not the rule. Secondly, the assumption is entirely wrong anyway if you’re looking at the type of progressive system for say Eisenhower had in place, because any investment in production capital and business expansion was written off in taxes anyway, so this system guaranteed the lowest cost of goods and highest purchasing power for workers.
@@zekea7215 If the taxed money goes from being invested into a company and generating more wealth long term (to then benefit consumers) to someone with higher consumption spending then you are, in effect (at absolute best), transferring wealth from people in the future to people in the present, with a significant net reduction (due to reduction in investment). The fundamental basis for progressive taxation is misguided.
@@indigo3796 what about aggregate demand driving production as demonstrated by the failed demand in the Great Depression and other recessionary periods, and also in our current economy since share buybacks have been deregulated, most employers just reinvest all of their profits in buying shares rather than raising wages or investing in production capital. Since the collapse of Bretton woods, inflation adjusted median wages have had a net drop in the last 50 years, as well as minimum wages meanwhile the ‘GDP growth’ has been predominantly in business and financial services and financial derivatives, while manufacturing declines.
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Your a lunatic.
He IS a special interest!!!
this man epitomises evil.
Corporate welfare does not benefit working class or needy Americans. We need to eliminate financial support to corporations and their excessive greed if we are to have a true democracy, otherwise we become a corporate oligarchy and democracy becomes just a word. This country should not tolerate conditions that afflict the poor.
This country should not support corporate welfare and corporate greed. The disparity between the haves and the have not should be obliterated . We need fairness. Corporations are entities not people. The welfare of our people and our democracy should be the first priority....trickle down theories are bogus and harmful to a productive society.
Education is primary. Not everyone needs or wants a philosophically based education but education provision for all should be established so that training to work and succeed is available and meets the needs of all.
It should be an individual choice made available to all.
We are beyond disgusted with self serving politicians. The Republican Party needs a complete overhaul. Currently, they are leading us to the abyss of democratic annihilation and the installation of a corporate oligarchy. This not the vision of our forefathers. SEN. Bernie Sanders is on the right track and so is SEN. Elizabeth Warren
Trump is the enemy of democracy and freedom and needs to be voted out. He has already caused much damage to the 99% and will continue to do if he remains unchecked. He is the current scourge and more will follow if we allow it ...his very poor choice for SCOTUS is just one example if his inability to be a president for all.
His policies re immigration is not only disgusting but harmful to us all.
If we do not vote out the harmful elements of the Republican Party , we are doomed. Leadership means listening to our people not ramming down our throats inappropriate candidates like Kavanaugh and issuing tge dictum that "thus will all blow over" indicating the populous is too stupid to remember .WE ARE NOT!
Current republican leadership in the Senate is a disgraceful example of not representing American values.
Morality, truth and honor is gasping last breaths under this republican leadership. VOTE THEM OUT.
We WILL NOT FORGET!
Is this the same guy who's attacked politicians when they try to address climate change?
Don't they say people blink a lot when they're lying? Look at his eyes at 7:13