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3. They want to kill public education because it tends to foster community values. Really evil

Tue Dec 4, 2018, 09:21 AM

Dec 2018

With Koch’s money and enthusiasm, Buchanan’s academic school evolved into something much bigger. By the 1990s, Koch realized that Buchanan’s ideas — transmitted through stealth and deliberate deception, as MacLean amply documents — could help take government down through incremental assaults that the media would hardly notice. The tycoon knew that the project was extremely radical, even a “revolution” in governance, but he talked like a conservative to make his plans sound more palatable.

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Must read: Meet the Economist Behind the One Percent's Stealth Takeover of America [View all] octoberlib Dec 2018 OP

Bookmarked for further study. calimary Dec 2018 #1

They want to kill public education because it tends to foster community values. Really evil octoberlib Dec 2018 #3

I believe the appropriate term here is "toady". Girard442 Dec 2018 #2

Nobel Laureate? ProfessorGAC Dec 2018 #4

McClean made that point. They awarded Buchanan the Nobel based on abstract theory octoberlib Dec 2018 #6

Yeah I Saw That ProfessorGAC Dec 2018 #8

Yep, it's how they operate. An Oklahoma Republican introduced a bill the other day octoberlib Dec 2018 #9

I Read That Right Here on DU ProfessorGAC Dec 2018 #11

As a Keynesian superpatriotman Dec 2018 #5

Tom Tomorrow's brilliant take on the logical final consequences of this philosophy. Girard442 Dec 2018 #7

Scary! marylandblue Dec 2018 #10

Good that MacLean uncovered this radical economist, libertarian. appalachiablue Dec 2018 #12

America will have a second Revolution realmirage Dec 2018 #13