Koch Network To Launch Multimillion-Dollar Campaign To Try To Convince Americans To Support...

[DonViejo]

Source: BuzzFeed News




Koch Network To Launch Multimillion-Dollar Campaign To Try To Convince Americans To Support The New Tax Plan

The network, which has already spent more than $20 million on the issue this year, will spend millions more next year on ads and grassroots events, as polling shows the plan to still be unpopular.

Posted on December 21, 2017, at 5:01 a.m.

Tarini Parti
BuzzFeed News Reporter
Washington, DC

The political network affiliated with billionaire industrialists Charles and David Koch will launch a multimillion-dollar campaign to sell the just-passed GOP tax plan to voters ahead of the 2018 midterm elections.

The network, which is funded by hundreds of wealthy GOP donors, has already spent more than $20 million this year on pushing the bill — a top priority, which it worked on closely with the Trump administration. Network officials say they will continue to make significant investments early in the new year for a "a full-scale nationwide education campaign" on the tax plan, which will permanently reduce taxes for corporations while cutting taxes for many individuals until 2025.

The campaign to sell the legislation, which polling shows is currently highly unpopular, will include TV, radio, and digital ads along with town hall events, seminars, workshops, phone banking, and door knocking.

A recent CNN poll found that opposition to the tax plan had grown by 10 points since November. Based on the poll, 55% of those surveyed oppose it and only 33% favor it, despite the investments from the Koch network and other Republican groups including 45Committee, American Action Network, and America First Policies to boost support for the bill.



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[Honeycombe8]

1. That makes no sense. It's a done deal. Repubs fall in line. They'll accept whatever their leaders do

Repubs fall in line like good soldiers. They accept whatever their politicians say or do. They'll accept the tax bill and continue to vote Repub. They always do. So it makes no sense to spend money to convince them, when all they need is Trump to tell them to accept it.

No campaign will convince the Dems to vote for Repubs, however.

I guess they're worried about 2018. But this tax bill will be a dim memory to most people. Koch Bros have money to burn, apparently. Esp since the tax bill.

[groundloop]

2. Makes perfect sense, it's an "investment" to protect lock in their profits

If they can convince voters that the middle class tax hike is a good idea then there won't be pressure on Congress Critters to modify the tax code, simple as that.

[RKP5637]

3. It'll be more like advertising IMO for the GOP brand for 2018, telling how great this stupid tax

bill is and how wonderful the GOP is for having brought this to the common people, all for the benefit of the little guy. And how zillions of jobs are being/will be created. And the idiot factor of the US will buy into it.
As the Cock Brothers and like enjoy the benefits.

[Upward]

35. This Is About Keeping the Kids Voting (R) in 2018

[Tanuki]

4. Is their nephew's new-found internet fame part of the "plan"?

https://www.thestranger.com/slog/2017/12/20/25643290/congratulations-on-your-enormous-goddamn-tax-cut-wyatt-ingraham-koch

[Blue_Tires]

5. Thank you, Citizens United ruling....

The gift that keeps on giving, as I said it would...

[procon]

6. How do they spin, 'the rich get richer and the poor gets poorer'?

Everything they point to as a potential benefit for the middle class is just a fantasy, wishful thinking, pie in the sky, hot air based on speculation and assuming the gamble pays off with the rosiest of possibilities.

[BumRushDaShow]

8. They bring on "fake" people (actors) to tout how much it is helping "them"

They did the same kind of bullshit to create the astroturf teabagger brigades.

[KY_EnviroGuy]

7. We need an opposition media campaign.

Any billionaires on our side stepping up to the plate?......

Seriously, fight fire with fire.......

[Yavin4]

9. Economic reality is our opposition media campaign. n/t

[titaniumsalute]

10. They already spent $20 million in ads...with a 29% tax plan approval rating

So good fucking luck.

[LakeArenal]

11. Kochs are buying the next elections.

That's it.

[SeaDoo77]

18. Bingo

You win the prize captain obvious. If Republicans get kicked out of office they can't further enrich the Koch Scum.

[LakeArenal]

33. Why the name calling ?

[not fooled]

24. They have

done what Hitler could not do-- taken over the U.S. And all without firing a shot, although millions will die if their evil plans come to fruition.

All it took was a few decades, billions of dollars, and extreme devotion to a radical extremist agenda such that they were willing to exploit weaknesses in our democratic system of governance. Now, having won, or so they think, they are in the process of taking the country apart.

It's up to us to stop them, starting in earnest in 2018.

[Bengus81]

12. This will be a little bit before Koch throws $25-$50M at Frankens Senate seat.....

Take that one to the bank............

[BigmanPigman]

13. Tom Steyer has been running Impeach Trump ads

as well as anti-tax scam ads. Maybe he should keep running them to oppose the Kochs' BS.

[kimbutgar]

14. I remember those awful anti aca ads in 2010 funded by the Koch's

The music drove me crazy.

[Mr. Sparkle]

15. nice to see them spend some of the 1 trillion so wisely !

They really are like a bunch of bank robbers gloating right in front of our faces.

[turbinetree]

16. Hey I found a person that can do the commercials and radio programs, has a lot of time.............

on his hands, has that board room experience, he's a free thinker................he can show and tell everyone

How his tax cuts helped HIM.....................

[not fooled]

20. OMFG

Don't miss the import of the print on that shirt he's inhabiting--how appropriately timed for the era of the GOPee bank heist.

You can't make this shit up.




Oh, and this tool is the beneficiary and logical outcome of the apex of capitalism. To paraphrase the great Charlie Pierce, this is your economic system, America. Cherish it.

[turbinetree]

21. He's the perfect poster boy.................everything he touches turns to gold

they can even put him a bathing suit and tie from the sexual predator around one of his shirts with bags of money, and he should tuck it into his bathing suit, with flip flops, with boney legs and fat fingers ............................he is perfect., and they don't have to pay him------------------since he belongs to a scab outfit

[underpants]

27. Boardroom yacht "discotechA" and that shirt

As I've posted above, he's suddenly become the face of the Trump tax bill.



Oh and he wants the $180k engagement ring back.



https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.vanityfair.com/style/2017/12/wyatt-koch-wedding-ring-lawsuit/amp

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

32. She looks to be somewhere between creeped out and WTF am I doing here?nt

[underpants]

26. Bill Kochs Son Inadvertently Emerges as the Face of Trumps Tax Plan

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/12/bill-kochs-son-inadvertently-emerges-as-the-face-of-trumps-tax-plan/amp

[turbinetree]

28. He's perfect, he's a grifter, and his shop should be boycotted

after all there "family" has attacked this country for over 70 years and on how this country made them rich, and now they attack the very fabric, without blinking an eye .....................

Talk about having a silver spoon in your mouth

.....................

[riversedge]

34. He actually has bags of money in the print of his gastly shirt. no class!

[SeaDoo77]

17. How Many Billion Will The Koch Brothers Save On Their Taxes

Some reporter should do the math

[not fooled]

19. Well

big $$$$$ from the kooks and their ilk got us the GOPee Senate and House, plus of course the orange turd, so the kooks have considerable justification for believing that they can con lots of dumbassed 'Muricans into loving the GOPee bank heist.

As pointed out above, economic reality will hit, but it remains to be seen whether the public puts two and two together when down the line their Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid go away (if the kooks get their wish).

Those two can't die fast enough. Yeah, I said it. They are killing thousands of Americans with their shit policies.




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[SeaDoo77]

22. So The Republicans Are So Proud Of Giving Their Owners A Huuuuuuuge Tax Cut - The Kochs

They are so happy they secured their campaign funding, Republicans are peeing their grampers.

Wait till they give the Kochs their next handout.

[alwaysinasnit]

23. Boycott?

For what it's worth, one little thing we can all do and that is boycott Koch companies whenever possible. A good resource is https://progressivenetwork.wordpress.com/2013/03/23/companies-owned-by-koch-brothers-and-the-products-they-sell/

[FakeNoose]

25. Yes this can't be repeated enough

Most DUers are already boycotting the Koches every way we can.
Spread the word to your family and friends.

Welcome to DU alwaysinasnit!

[alwaysinasnit]

36. Thanks

Thanks for the warm welcome. I have been encouraging all family/friends to spread that too. I am especially encouraged by some of my young relatives who have "gotten it."

[diva77]

38. Thank you for this. nt

[IADEMO2004]

29. Well now the answer is "FUCK YES" from the Movie "Dave"

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106673/quotes


Tax Plan replaces car



Dave: I don't want to tell some eight-year-old kid he's gotta sleep in the street because we want people to feel better about their *car*. Do *you* want to tell them that?

Secretary of Commerce: [quietly] No sir.

[sits back in his seat and reflects]

Secretary of Commerce: No I sure don't.

[EarthFirst]

30. I wonder how many of those $1000 bonuses awarded to 100,000 Comcast employees...

I’m willing to be Koch has it’s public relations hand in this.

[YOHABLO]

31. The Kochs are fucking this country up. They're full money (and shit)

[orangecrush]

37. they are crapping their pants

Over the upcoming election.