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"David and Charles Koch are "attempting to control their workers' votes" by sending out pro-Romney informational packets and "stifling workplace political speech," In These Times reports.
According to an investigation carried out by the magazine, the Koch brothers allegedly sent out a mailing to 50,000 employees earlier this month offering information as to how to vote in this year's presidential election.
If we elect candidates who want to spend hundreds of billions in borrowed money on costly new subsidies for a few favored cronies, put unprecedented regulatory burdens on businesses, prevent or delay important new construction projects and excessively hinder free trade, then many of our more than 50,000 U.S. employees and contractors may suffer the consequences. ... It is essential that we are all informed and educated voters. Our future depends on it."
Cost of War Tops
$1000 Billion
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Cost of War in Iraq
$808,225,560,004
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Cost of War in Afghanistan
$580,074,515,710
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Romney’s Estate Tax Cut Would Save the Koch Brothers Up to $8.7 Billion Each
November 6th, 2012
GOP presidential hopeful Mitt Romney is slated to give a "major spending policy speech" at Americans For Prosperity's Defending the American Dream Summit. Both the conference and AFP itself are funded by money from the billionaire Koch brothers.
Romney has, of late, been trying to claim the economic plan he put forth is meant to aid the middle-class, not those in the Koch brothers' tax bracket. "I want to focus on where the people are hurting the most, and that's the middle class. I'm not worried about rich people. They are doing just fine," Romney said at a GOP debate last month. Yesterday, he even tried to claim "I'm proposing no tax cuts for the rich."
Leaving aside that Romney intends to extend the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy, he has proposed a huge giveaway to the very rich by suggesting the complete elimination of the estate tax. Only the very richest households in the country ever have to pay the estate tax, since, right now, an estate must be worth more than $5 million (or $10 million for a couple) to pay any estate tax at all.
Currently, more than half of the estate tax is paid by the richest 0.1 percent of households. And according to a quick back-of-the-envelope calculation, the Koch brothers heirs' would save a combined $17.4 billion in estate taxes thanks to Romney's plan.