Political Views
Koch supports policies that promote individual liberty and free market principles. He supports gay marriage and stem-cell research. He is against the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and was against the Dodd–Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act. Koch is skeptical about anthropogenic Global Warming, and thinks a warmer planet would be good because "he Earth will be able to support enormously more people because a far greater land area will be available to produce food".
He opposed the Iraq war, saying that the war has "cost a lot of money, and it's taken so many American lives". "I question whether that was the right thing to do. In hindsight that looks like it was not a good policy", he told an interviewer.
Koch dislikes President Obama's policies. "He's the most radical president we've ever had as a nation... and has done more damage to the free enterprise system and long-term prosperity than any president we've ever had." Koch believes that Obama's father's economic socialism explains what Koch views as Obama's belief in "antibusiness, anti-free enterprise influences." Koch believes Obama himself is a "hardcore socialist" who is "marvelous at pretending to be something other than that". Eighty-seven percent of David Koch's contributions went to Republicans in 2012.
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