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Charles Koch
Charles Koch
American Businessman
Born: Nov 1, 1935
Business Competition Government Money People Welfare
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We are not trying to prevent new clean energy businesses from succeeding. Any business that's economical, that can succeed in the marketplace, any form of energy, we're all for. As a matter of fact, we're investing in quite a number of them, ourselves - whether that's ethanol, renewable fuel oil. Charles Koch
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Any of the social changes in American history are because people thought there was injustice. We have to show that this corporate welfare and cronyism is unjust - and that it's not only rigging the system so people get wealthy who don't deserve to get wealthy. Charles Koch
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The easy way to make money is to get special political privilege. From the beginning of time, business has cozied up to government and gotten restrictions on competition and subsidies and stuff. Charles Koch
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The best way to make money is to have more economic freedom, which is why we are one of the very few large companies that are consistently for it. Charles Koch
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The role of business is to provide products and services that make people's lives better - while using fewer resources - and to act lawfully and with integrity. Charles Koch
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You pass a program and get people dependent on it, making it brutal to get rid of. The key is not letting it get started. Charles Koch
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Far too many businesses have been all too eager to lobby for maintaining and increasing subsidies and mandates paid by taxpayers and consumers. Charles Koch
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I studied what principles under-laid peace and prosperity and concluded the only way to achieve societal well-being was through a system of economic freedom. Charles Koch
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Koch companies employ 60,000 Americans, who make many thousands of products that Americans want and need. Charles Koch
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Far from trying to rig the system, I have spent decades opposing cronyism and all political favors, including mandates, subsidies and protective tariffs - even when we benefit from them. Charles Koch
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Subsidies and mandates are just two of the privileges that government can bestow on politically connected friends. Others include grants, loans, tax credits, favorable regulations, bailouts, loan guarantees, targeted tax breaks and no-bid contracts. Charles Koch
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When you start attacking cronyism and people's political interests, it gets nasty. Charles Koch
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The successful companies try to keep the new entrants down. Now that's great for a company like ours. We make more money that way because we have less competition and less innovation. But for the country as a whole, it's horrible. Charles Koch
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It's not going to help the country to be subsidizing uneconomical forms of energy - whether you call them 'green,' 'renewable' or whatever. In that case, the cure is worse than the disease. Charles Koch
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