Why do some billionaires, who have self-evidently benefited from our system to an extreme, want to destroy our system?
This is a puzzling question, to me at least.
Take the Koch brothers (please).
They are each worth upward of 50 billion dollars. Think about that for a second. 50 billion is 50 thousand million. If they never made another penny, they could each spend a million dollars a day for 137 years.
They achieved some of this wealth from inheritance, of course, but the vast majority of it they have "earned" under our system of government, including our economic system, and our taxation system.
Unfortunately, 50 billion apiece just isn't enough. In some way they still feel cheated. Poor things. They think they are overtaxed and over regulated, and that they would've done much better in the imaginary, libertarian, no-holds-barred, free market paradise that they dream of.
So they've decided to buy up every politician they can to make sure that in the future they get a "fair" shake.
Perhaps by doing away with pesky things like clean air and water laws, OSHA, the EPA, unions, the minimum wage, and estate taxes.
Of course, contrary to 37 years of Republican economic policy, the more that flows to the top .1% the less there is for everyone else.
What pleasure do they, and their ilk, get from taking things away from poorer people? It must be intense, perhaps even sexual in nature.
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