The Koch brothers are philanthropists & hate subsidies to businesses

To the editor,

Lynn Rudmin Chong only sees the world only through "blue colored glasses" supplied to her by local Democrats. Tuesday, Lynn unloaded her venom on the Koch brothers, owners of multiple, large businesses enterprises. The Koch's have given vocal support to Republican Governor Scott Walker in Wisconsin, who is trying to balance that states budget and lower the tax burden on hundreds of thousands of Wisconsin's taxpayers who have not fared nearly as well as the public UNION EMPLOYEES who average $100,000 in wages and benefit packages the rest of the world can only dream about (public union employees in Wisconsin have the highest average compensation of any state in the country) and they still want more.

Lynn indicates she does not like shouting or caustic people on the political scene. Well, she must HATE the Democrats protesting in Madison, banging drums and pans and shouting four letter profanity at anyone in ear shot. Democrats carry signs with the governors picture in rifle cross hairs. Now that is caustic. Didn't Obama just plead for a more "civil discourse" in America after the Tucson shooting? It is 100-percent pure total, hypocrisy as Obama's own election-arm bus and truck in thousands of protestors to raise the political tension in Madison. Why is Lynn not condemning these unruly actions? Answer: These are caustic Democrats acting badly, not Republicans.

We all should stop buying toilet paper and paper towels the Koch's manufacture because they lobby, they support tea party candidates, they want lower personal taxes and they want lower corporate taxes with less government regulation. Did you ever hear of such an irrational and idiotic reason to ask people to stop buying any product? It is sheer lunacy.

Maybe it is news to Lynn? Unions lobby. GET THIS unions represent three of the top 10 financial contributors to the Democratic Party, throwing tens of millions their way. Democrats want to "buy" an outcome. Why? Because Democrats who get elected "grease the skids" and become rubber stamps for union employees, enabling them to negotiate contracts with always higher wage concessions, improved benefits, and job security with lax work rules that place unending financial burden and lower the living standards of every taxpayer in Wisconsin.

All I can say is every time Lynn Rudmin Chong writes a letter to the editor it is good for Republicans because she almost always makes no sense and her ratings are so purely politically motivated and without logic they are DOA. Lynn does not like the Kochs because they are among the most successful families in America and rich beyond description. They are business innovators and tough competitors in the businesses they operate in. They employ about 50,000 people, many in high paying jobs. The Koch's employees pay tens of millions of dollars in income taxes and the Koch's themselves pay many millions more in corporate and personal taxes. Money that helps fund every wasteful, crackpot, bailout, handout, and stimulus package Lynn Rudim chong and Barack Obama can dream up.

The Kochs contribute countless dollars to philanthropy of every type and hate government subsidies to any business. Subsidies distort the real market price for all goods and services receiving government dole. The Kochs dislike government regulation because it raises the price of every product produced. All government regulation is passed on to the consumer in the form of higher prices. Lynn and the Democrats love more government regulation and the higher prices that go with them that you pay for.

In summary, I guess Lynn wants 50,000 people to lose their jobs (that’s what happens when people stop buying a company's products) so we can add them to the 9-percent unemployment rate we already have. And she wants the government to lose tens of millions in tax revenues because the USA's budget is in such good shape. This so typifies Democrats thinking and why unemployment remains unbelievably high and why we can not get our hands around our deficit problems. Republicans now control more state legislatures than at any time since 1928. You can now understand why.

Tony Boutin

Gilford