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Why Would the Koch Brothers Want to Refine Cato Institute?
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Why Would the Koch Brothers Want to Refine Cato Institute?
Posted by Ezra Kleinat
02:37 PM ET, 03/09/2012
Washington Post
Wonk Blog
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/post/why-would-
the-koch-brothers-want-to-refine-cato-institute/2012/03/09/
gIQAxKWe1R_blog.html
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A shorter URL for the above link:
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http://tinyurl.com/835nw29
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It seems that the effort by billionaires Charles and David Koch to take
control of the libertarian Cato Institute is going poorly.
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The Koch brothers have long supported Cato, which they helped found in
Washington in 1977. Recently, however, they have come to consider their
creation politically unreliable. In a meeting with Robert Levy, chairman
of Catos board of directors, they expressed their intention to remake the
institute into a party organ that would aid their effort to unseat
President Obama. To do so, however, they need control of the board. They
intend to get it by suing the widow of William Niskanen, a recently
deceased board member, for control of Niskanens shares.
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Whether they can pull off this coup is for the courts to decide. But the
bigger question is: Why in the world would they want to?
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I find much of Catos hard-line libertarianism to the point of purging
Will Wilkinson and Brink Lindsey, libertarians who explored making common
cause with liberals on select issues naive, callous and occasionally
absurd. And yet, its among a handful of think tanks whose work I regularly
read and trust.
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Thats because Cato is, well, the foremost advocate for small-government
principles in American life. It advocates those principles when Democrats
are in power, and when Republicans are in power. When I read Catos take on
a policy question, I can trust that it is informed by more than partisan
convenience. The same cant be said for other think tanks in town.
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The Heritage Foundation, for instance, is a conservative think tank that
professes to pursue goals similar to Catos. Where Catos motto is
individual liberty, free markets, and peace, Heritages mission is the
advancement of conservative public policies based on the principles of
free enterprise, limited government, individual freedom, traditional
American values, and a strong national defense.
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In practice, however, whatever the Republican Party wants, so does
Heritage. In 1989, Heritage helped develop the idea of universal health
care delivered by the private sector through an individual mandate. In the
early 1990s, it helped Senate Republicans build that concept into a
legislative alternative to President Bill Clintons proposed reforms. In
the early 2000s, Heritage worked with then-Governor Mitt Romney to
implement the plan in Massachusetts. Then, when Obama won office and
Democrats adopted Heritages idea, Heritage promptly fell into step with
the Republican Party and turned ferociously against it.
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The complete article may be read at the URL above.
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Previous Coverage of the Koch Brothers on Net-Gold
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A shorter URL for the above link:
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http://tinyurl.com/3u726ep
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