In Jane Mayer's new book, Dark Money, she writes about all of the different enterprises the Kochs own, and how those enterprises impact public policy in one way or another.
We all know about tax policy and health care policy, but one area that has flown under the radar for the most part is public lands policy.
"Koch Industries took full advantage of a panoply of federal subsidies, ranging from artificially low grazing fees on the 40 percent of their 500,000 acres of cattle ranches that used federal lands, to a deal with the Bush administration in 2002 to sell eight million barrels of crude oil to fill the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, a federal supply set aside as a hedge against market disruptions," Mayer wrote.
It should come as no surprise, therefore, to discover that the current rumblings about federal land holdings aren't just random disgruntled "sovereign citizens," but affiliated with Koch-funded groups.
Travis Gettys at Raw Story writes,
