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salin

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29. Dear Mr. Koch, I challenge you to live on that amount of money (pre taxes)

Mon Jul 15, 2013, 08:43 PM

Jul 2013

for 3 months. To really experience what you are extolling as such a grand salary, you can not pull in any financial resources. You have to live at a shelter or rent a room on that salary, until you have saved enough for a deposit for housing.

As you are willing to invest so much of your money "on making America better" for all (your claim) and not for personal financial self-interest, then you should experience the realities of those who live on this grand salary.

Please note that this is a much higher income level than many Americans.

Until then, your proclamations that your efforts are to "make America better" rather than using your outsized (inherited) wealth to influence policy to enrich yourself will continue to be met with extreme skepticism.

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Charles Koch: $34,000 puts you in the top 1% [View all] Fla Dem Jul 2013 OP

That's what you call a boldface lie. nt onehandle Jul 2013 #1

fucker. I hope he shovels shit in hell someday. Standing in it up to his neck. roguevalley Jul 2013 #23

Better yet...prison! Fearless Jul 2013 #62

agreed, fearless roguevalley Jul 2013 #69

EXACTLY MY THOUGHTS drynberg Jul 2013 #34

Except that it's, you know, factually accurate Recursion Jul 2013 #68

Not very good at math is he. Cleita Jul 2013 #2

they're working on that. barbtries Jul 2013 #15

The problem is the way our food and other commodities are marketed. JDPriestly Jul 2013 #41

Hmmmm - so Charles Koch wishes American Workers had lives closer to poverty in Africa el_bryanto Jul 2013 #3

hes he does. then he wouldn't have to pay minimum wage tk2kewl Jul 2013 #8

Using, "scrip", he could have his own Treasury Department and circumvent the US Government's DhhD Jul 2013 #66

Indeed he does! City Lights Jul 2013 #17

When you live in North Korea maybe that is what the extreme Right Wing really wants. gordianot Jul 2013 #4

Lets see him live on less than minimum wage. BainsBane Jul 2013 #5

Let's see him not live at all demwing Jul 2013 #7

Which wouldn't solve anything in the long term nxylas Jul 2013 #70

and then Tiny Tim said demwing Jul 2013 #71

A visit from three ghosts would work too nxylas Jul 2013 #72

Ayn Rand's philosophy was dead to begin with demwing Jul 2013 #74

$34,000 would probably be that fuckers "pocket change" Autumn Jul 2013 #6

It's what Chuckles Koch makes every 23 minutes. HughBeaumont Jul 2013 #20

So those that earn $34,000 Politicalboi Jul 2013 #9

If I'm 1 in 100, he must be 1 in a billion (at least; without doing the math) Duer 157099 Jul 2013 #10

That's actually quite accurate, considering there are about 7 billion people on MillennialDem Jul 2013 #54

The article is hilarious... It's not the Koch's greed that gets in the way SomethingFishy Jul 2013 #11

Yes, he's an evil troll Proud Public Servant Jul 2013 #12

I suspect it's wrong, though muriel_volestrangler Jul 2013 #30

People living on $2/day or less don't by Koch Bros. products. JDPriestly Jul 2013 #42

Typical Republican Total Bullshit..Real Cute. Notice the "in the world"...which means.. BlueJazz Jul 2013 #13

More manipulative crap from Koch.. truth2power Jul 2013 #36

$34,000 vs. $25,000,000,000. When do we break out the guillotines again? Initech Jul 2013 #14

Hopefully soon. n/t PowerToThePeople Jul 2013 #24

Fuck him! I hope he chokes on money! Rex Jul 2013 #16

LOL, what's that saying? Trailrider1951 Jul 2013 #27

Good question! Initech Jul 2013 #33

According to WHAT fucked up wage scale????? Arkana Jul 2013 #18

$34,000 is what Charles Koch makes . . . every 23 MINUTES. HughBeaumont Jul 2013 #19

Talk about shameless Hydra Jul 2013 #21

They want it all. nt awoke_in_2003 Jul 2013 #40

Born in a bubble, never escaped. moondust Jul 2013 #22

He really is clueless duffyduff Jul 2013 #25

Clueless? Maybe a little bit. Orsino Jul 2013 #55

the concern of course is quaker bill Jul 2013 #26

What an out-of-touch asshole. miked62916 Jul 2013 #28

Dear Mr. Koch, I challenge you to live on that amount of money (pre taxes) salin Jul 2013 #29

Y'all gonna get on poor ol' Chuck's case for a measly little typo? DFW Jul 2013 #31

Technically, they're correct, but it's meaningless. Yavin4 Jul 2013 #32

Good point.. Also, most people who make $34K/yr in country don't qualify for welfare either penultimate Jul 2013 #35

Conservatives love to compare American middle/working/poor to only Chad and Djibouti's poor . . . . HughBeaumont Jul 2013 #50

You have that right ladym55 Jul 2013 #53

Then someone making a billion a year should be taxed higher. HooptieWagon Jul 2013 #52

Nor would I want the typical American (or person for that matter) to live the life MillennialDem Jul 2013 #56

Charles Koch is a lowlife scumbag. No amount of wealth will make him respectable. gtar100 Jul 2013 #37

we have people at du saying the same thing. HiPointDem Jul 2013 #38

Tells you who gives them their talking points, doesn't it? n/t Hydra Jul 2013 #44

They need to be OFF DU. HughBeaumont Jul 2013 #49

contrarywise, some of them have been here for years, leading lights as it were. HiPointDem Jul 2013 #59

May be a little off subject-but Koch is running ads in our area KrazyinKS Jul 2013 #39

The terrible thing is not the people who can say this shit with a straight face. TheMadMonk Jul 2013 #43

. . . and the more swallowers there are . . . . HughBeaumont Jul 2013 #48

he needs medical care greymattermom Jul 2013 #45

Then when I joke that LiberalElite Jul 2013 #46

Woohoo Corgigal Jul 2013 #47

Unfortunately - I lived off our Welfare for many years ConcernedCanuk Jul 2013 #51

Yep, I'd love to see him live off $34,000 a year. We can even give him a job earning MillennialDem Jul 2013 #57

Those who say he is clueless, I don't think that's the case. I think he knows exactly what he is MillennialDem Jul 2013 #58

Fucking guillotine. nt Codeine Jul 2013 #60

$45,000 = 50 weeks working 40 hours at $22.50 hr. Double minimum wage still insuuficient 4 a family Coyotl Jul 2013 #61

How can I guy who's that effing stupid Jeff In Milwaukee Jul 2013 #63

Then he wouldn't mind living on $34,000 a year, I guess. Zoeisright Jul 2013 #64

So, according to Charles Koch NewJeffCT Jul 2013 #65

Err, that's true, yes? Recursion Jul 2013 #67

more like top 2%, of the entire world population muriel_volestrangler Jul 2013 #79

If prices were the same in America as elsewhere, $34,000 a year would let you live like a prince. Donald Ian Rankin Jul 2013 #73

So what is Charles Koch income and B Calm Jul 2013 #75

When you just make shit up, it can be dreamy liberal N proud Jul 2013 #76

When the time comes... TheLion Jul 2013 #77

charles koch mstinamotorcity2 Jul 2013 #78