The billionaire Koch brothers' war against Obama : The New Yorker
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/08/30/100830fa_fact_mayer?currentPage=all
The Kochs are longtime libertarians who believe in drastically lower personal and corporate taxes, minimal social services for the needy, and much less oversight of industry—especially environmental regulation.
(Isn't there an element of extreme environmental deregulation which is problematic for a true "libertarian"? Libertarians favor small governments which protect people from harming/abusing one another but otherwise leaves them alone to do what they will with their resources. The scale on which a person with as much focused wealth as a Koch brother can degrade the environment as a result of industrial practices should surely warrant regulation from even a thoroughly libertarian government. Combined with the profit motive, It presents a true and enormous threat to surrounding "stakeholders".)
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