The Bilionaire Agenda, by Bernie Sanders

By Writingresource - April 24, 2014


	*Take the poll: Do you agree or disagree with* *the Koch brothers’ billionaire agenda?*

The Koch brothers – the second wealthiest family in America worth at least $80 billion – for decades operated in the shadows of American public life while pumping hundreds of millions of dollars into front groups promoting what Bernie has called the “billionaire agenda.” It is not well knownThe Koch brothers – the second wealthiest family in America worth at least $80 billion – for decades operated in the shadows
of American public life while pumping hundreds of millions of dollars into front groups promoting what Bernie has call

ed the “billionaire agenda.”
It is not well known, but David Koch was the 1980 Libertarian Party candidate for vice president
and helped fund that party. He campaigned on a platform that called for ending all limitations on campaign spending, abolishing taxes on the wealthy and profitable corporations, shutting down Medicare and Medicaid, repealing Social Security, terminating the Postal Service and doing away with the minimum wage. “They want to repeal every major piece of legislation over the past 80 years that protects the middle class, the elderly, the children, the sick and the most vulnerable in our country,” Bernie said., but David Koch was the 1980 Libertarian Party candidate for vice president and helped fund that party. He campaigned on a platform that called for ending all limitations on campaign spending, abolishing taxes on the wealthy and profitable corporations, shutting down Medicare and Medicaid, repealing Social Security, terminating the Postal Service and doing away with the minimum wage. “They want to repeal every major piece of legislation over the past 80 years that protects the middle class, the elderly, the children, the sick and the most vulnerable in our country,” Bernie said.

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