I've found that many former go-to libertarian think tanks are really just big corporate interest shills focused on "freedom" and "liberty" from corporate taxes and regulations. For big businesses, mind you. Not small and medium-size entrepreneurs or local corporations. They have pretty much exactly zero focus on basic freedom and liberty…
I've found that many former go-to libertarian think tanks are really just big corporate interest shills focused on "freedom" and "liberty" from corporate taxes and regulations. For big businesses, mind you. Not small and medium-size entrepreneurs or local corporations. They have pretty much exactly zero focus on basic freedom and liberty issues for individuals, households or the small business operations.
And when I look at who the majority of their funding comes from it always makes sense. Big corporations or wealthy philanthropists who made their fortunes in big corporations. Just like with major media advertisers that pay for the news they want reported. Always follow the money, along with the personnel. Who are the biggest funders of Mises?
One of the libertarian think tanks in my state is headed by a guy who I knew, once liked. Until he told me (all the unjabbed) to suffer in great agony and pain, face death - but not actually die, just make us feel real pain - for not taking the bioweapon poison in 2021. The same think tank employs a former leader of the Libertarian Party as their "libertarian voice" that sounds remarkably like a Marxist voice these days. Marxism sugar-coated with libertarian linguistics.
Come to think of it, Reason magazine and Nick Gillespie reads the same way these days, too. Informing me that most old mainstay libertarian voices are just as corrupted and captured as every other institution today. Some get longer leashes than others to stray from narrative. But make no mistake, they are on leashes. In the hands of their funder masters.
I've found that many former go-to libertarian think tanks are really just big corporate interest shills focused on "freedom" and "liberty" from corporate taxes and regulations. For big businesses, mind you. Not small and medium-size entrepreneurs or local corporations. They have pretty much exactly zero focus on basic freedom and liberty issues for individuals, households or the small business operations.
And when I look at who the majority of their funding comes from it always makes sense. Big corporations or wealthy philanthropists who made their fortunes in big corporations. Just like with major media advertisers that pay for the news they want reported. Always follow the money, along with the personnel. Who are the biggest funders of Mises?
One of the libertarian think tanks in my state is headed by a guy who I knew, once liked. Until he told me (all the unjabbed) to suffer in great agony and pain, face death - but not actually die, just make us feel real pain - for not taking the bioweapon poison in 2021. The same think tank employs a former leader of the Libertarian Party as their "libertarian voice" that sounds remarkably like a Marxist voice these days. Marxism sugar-coated with libertarian linguistics.
Come to think of it, Reason magazine and Nick Gillespie reads the same way these days, too. Informing me that most old mainstay libertarian voices are just as corrupted and captured as every other institution today. Some get longer leashes than others to stray from narrative. But make no mistake, they are on leashes. In the hands of their funder masters.