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David Koch supports policies that promote individual liberty and free market principles. He supports gay marriage and stem-cell research.[3] He is against the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and was against the Dodd–Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act.[3] Koch is skeptical about anthropogenic Global Warming, and thinks a warmer planet would be good because “[t]he Earth will be able to support enormously more people because a far greater land area will be available to produce food”.[3]

He opposed the Iraq war, saying that the war has “cost a lot of money, and it’s taken so many American lives”. “I question whether that was the right thing to do. In hindsight that looks like it was not a good policy.” he told an interviewer.[15]

David Koch dislikes President Obama’s policies. “He’s the most radical president we’ve ever had as a nation... and has done more damage to the free enterprise system and long-term prosperity than any president we’ve ever had.”[15] Koch believes that Obama’s father’s economic socialism explains what Koch views as Obama’s belief in “antibusiness, anti-free enterprise influences.”[15] Koch believes Obama himself is a “hardcore socialist” who is “marvelous at pretending to be something other than that.” [17]

Political advocacySee also: Political activities of the Koch family
In 1984, Koch founded, served as Chairman of the board of directors of, and donated to the free-market Citizens for a Sound Economy (CSE). Richard H. Fink served as its first president.[15] In 2004, CSE separated into the Americans for Prosperity Foundation and FreedomWorks. Koch continues as Chairman of the Board and gives money to the Americans for Prosperity Foundation and to a related advocacy organization, Americans for Prosperity. A Koch spokesperson issued a press release stating that the Kochs’ have “no ties to and have never given money to FreedomWorks”.[18]

Koch also sits on the board and donates to the libertarian Cato Institute and Reason Foundation.[2][3][19]

In the late summer and early fall of 2010, Koch’s contributions to political campaigns, free-market think tanks and other advocacy organizations came under increased scrutiny. Koch supports Republican candidates and California Proposition 23 (2010). In July 2010, New York magazine profiled him, calling him the “tea party’s wallet”.[3] Koch says that: “I’ve never been to a tea party event. No one representing the tea party has ever even approached me.”[3] However, some organisations tracking money in politics say that Americans for Prosperity is in the Tea Party movement.[20]

In August 2010, Jane Mayer of The New Yorker wrote a controversial[15][21] article on the political spending of David and Charles Koch: “As their fortunes grew, Charles and David Koch became the primary underwriters of hard-line libertarian politics in America.”[2][22] Mayer’s article has received criticism for using “psycho-biographic innuendo, unnamed sources, and half-truths.”[23]

Kimberly O. Dennis, of the Searle Freedom Trust, a libertarian foundation, suggests that the Kochs are acting against their economic interest in promoting “getting government out of the business of running the economy. If they were truly interested in protecting their profits, they wouldn’t be spending so much to shrink government; they’d be looking for a bigger slice of the pie for themselves. Their funding is devoted to promoting free-market capitalism, not crony capitalism.”[24]

Libertarians like you people don’t like it when some one gives you the same treatment you vomit out of your mouths.

You Casiniacs have singlehandedly destroyed FR. Damn Shame.

PERRY WILL BE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.

Not the pizza flipping baffoon your koch funded campaign wants.

Kochs didn’t like paying 250+ million Dollars for killing two teenagers at their plant in Tx.

But they made it up illegally trading with IRAN.. You go Bros.