Real Koch Facts: Then & Now

Then & Now: Attacks on Campaign Finance Laws

THEN

David Koch wanted to abolish campaign finance protections.

NOW

Koch-funded groups want to gut campaign finance protections.

Then & Now: Koch Efforts to Deregulate Wall Street

THEN

The Clark-Koch campaign called for abolishing the SEC and fully deregulating the stock market.

NOW

Koch-Founded groups opposed Dodd-Frank.

Then & Now: Koch Support for Tax Cuts for the Wealthy

THEN

The 1980 Koch-Clark campaign proposed cutting capital gains tax rates in half and eliminating the “windfall profits” tax on oil companies.

NOW

Koch-funded groups and candidates support tax cuts for the wealthy at the expense of the middle class and working families.

Then & Now: Koch Attacks on Medicare

THEN

David Koch ran on a platform to cut payments to Medicare contractors in half.

NOW

Koch-funded group backed plan to replace Medicare.

Then & Now: Koch Attacks on Social Security

THEN

The 1980 Koch-Clark campaign called Social Security "the most serious threat to the future stability of our society next to the threat of nuclear war" and called for phasing out the program.

NOW

Koch-funded groups and candidates have supported privatizing Social Security, with some referring to the program as a ponzi scheme.

Then & Now: Koch Attacks on Minimum Wage

THEN

The 1980 Koch-Clark campaign ticket called for ABOLISHING ALL minimum wage laws.

NOW

Candidates supported by the Kochs’ political enterprise today oppose increasing the minimum wage. Some, like Thom Tillis in North Carolina, have even said the federal minimum wage should be repealed entirely.