...and you'll find a billionaire or two behind it. The Aristorcacy lives!
In a report by the National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy titled 1 Billion for Ideas: Conservative Think Tanks in the 1990s, 20 leading right-wing think tanks were described as spending a billion dollars on "anti-government and unregulated markets agenda." The report states,
"These policy groups have pushed aggressively to privatize Social Security and Medicare, loosen laws governing workplace safety and the rights of workers to organize, roll back environmental and consumer safety regulations, [...] privatize systems of public education..."
A primary focus of many right-wing think tanks is the privatization of public education and several of their leaders have signed a publicly posted proclamation calling for the end of "government involvement in education."
The Cato Institute is heavily funded by the Scaife, Koch, Bradley and Lambe Foundations.
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