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thomhartmann - Callers Guess Which Party Wrote The Platform (Original Post)
liberalnarb
Apr 2016
OP
FROM BERNIE SANDERS SENATE WEBSITE: 1980 LIBERTARIAN PARTY PLATFORM, MORE
appalachiablue
Apr 2016
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JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)1. K&R.
Highly recommend this short video. Involves a quiz!
appalachiablue
(41,146 posts)3. FROM BERNIE SANDERS SENATE WEBSITE: 1980 LIBERTARIAN PARTY PLATFORM, MORE
CHARLES AND DAVID KOCH, BILLIONAIRE SONS OF WICHITA, KANSAS.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_activities_of_the_Koch_brothers
-DAVID KOCH RAN AS THE 1980 LIBERTARIAN PARTY'S VICE-PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE
*FROM BERNIE SANDERS SENATE WEBSITE: 'WHAT DO THE KOCH BROTHERS WANT?'
http://www.sanders.senate.gov/koch-brothers
Lets take a look at the *1980 LIBERTARIAN PARTY PLATORM*: Here are just A FEW EXCERPTS of the Libertarian Party platform that David Koch ran on in 1980:
We urge the repeal of federal campaign finance laws, and the immediate abolition of the despotic Federal Election Commission.
We favor the abolition of Medicare and Medicaid programs.
We oppose any compulsory insurance or tax-supported plan to provide health services, including those which finance abortion services.
We also favor the deregulation of the medical insurance industry.
We favor the repeal of the fraudulent, virtually bankrupt, and increasingly oppressive Social Security system. Pending that repeal, participation in Social Security should be made voluntary.
We propose the abolition of the governmental Postal Service. The present system, in addition to being inefficient, encourages governmental surveillance of private correspondence. Pending abolition, we call for an end to the monopoly system and for allowing free competition in all aspects of postal service.
We oppose all personal and corporate income taxation, including capital gains taxes.
We support the eventual repeal of all taxation.
As an interim measure, all criminal and civil sanctions against tax evasion should be terminated immediately.
We support repeal of all law which impede the ability of any person to find employment, such as minimum wage laws.
>We advocate the complete separation of education and State. Government schools lead to the indoctrination of children and interfere with the free choice of individuals. Government ownership schools lead to the indoctrination of children and interfere with the free choice of individuals. Government ownership, operation, regulation, and subsidy of schools and colleges should be ended.
We condemn compulsory education laws and we call for the immediate repeal of such laws.
We support the repeal of all taxes on the income or property of private schools, whether profit or non-profit.
We support the abolition of the Environmental Protection Agency.
We support abolition of the Department of Energy.
We call for the dissolution of all government agencies concerned with transportation, including the Department of Transportation.
We demand the return of America's railroad system to private ownership. We call for the privatization of the public roads and national highway system.
We specifically oppose laws requiring an individual to buy or use so-called "self-protection" equipment such as safety belts, air bags, or crash helmets.
We advocate the abolition of the Federal Aviation Administration.
We advocate the abolition of the Food and Drug Administration.
We support an end to all subsidies for child-bearing built into our present laws, including all welfare plans and the
provision of tax-supported services for children.
We oppose all government welfare, relief projects, and aid to the poor programs. All these government programs are privacy-invading, paternalistic, demeaning, and inefficient. The proper source of help for such persons is the voluntary efforts of private groups and individuals.
We call for the privatization of the inland waterways, and of the distribution system that brings water to industry, agriculture and households.
We call for the repeal of the Occupational Safety and Health Act.
We call for the abolition of the Consumer Product Safety Commission.
We support the repeal of all state usury laws.
In other words, the agenda of the Koch brothers is not only to defund OBAMACARE.
*The agenda of the Koch brothers is to repeal every major piece of legislation that has been signed into law over the past 80 years that has protected the middle class, the elderly, the children, the sick, and the most vulnerable in this country.
It is clear that the Koch brothers and other right wing billionaires are calling the shots and are pulling the strings of the Republican Party.
And because of the disastrous CITIZEN'S UNITED Supreme Court decision, they now have the power to spend an unlimited amount of money to buy the House of Representatives, the Senate, and the next President of the United States.
>If they are allowed to hijack the American political process to defund Obamacare they will be back for more.
>Tomorrow it will be SOCIAL SEURITY, ending MEDICARE as we know it, repealing the MINIMUM WAGE. It seems to me that the Koch brothers will not be content until they get everything they believe they are entitled to.
*Our great nation can no longer be hijacked by right-wing billionaires like the Koch brothers.
*For the sake of our children and our grandchildren, for the sake of our economy, we have got to let democracy prevail.
Read More: http://www.sanders.senate.gov/koch-brothers