Yes, it was nice that Charles G. Koch mentioned the military as well as entitlements in his op-ed.
But there were two magic missing words: "corporate welfare."
Hey, Charles and David, whenever you're ready to give up some oil industry tax deductions, and say so in public, THEN you can write an op-ed that I'll take with less skepticism.
As for specific handouts? Charles and David get more than oil bucks from Daddy Federal Warbucks. They include ethanol subsidies, logging road subsidies, free dairy grazing on federal land subsidies, and making deals with socialist governments. Don't forget their old man got his start with Uncle Joe Stalin!
Also, until you, looking back on the current deficits, say what you would have done differently on the financial crisis, you don't get 100 percent seriousness on the deficit. Nor do you get seriousness on military spending until you can find a quote from five years ago similar to one from today.
More on the shady dealings here of Bros. Koch here.
FiredogLake has a brilliant deconstruction of how this column explodes in Koch's face if you change the focus from the federal budget to climate change and make other changes accordingly.
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