3 New Ways The Koch Brothers Are Screwing America

3 New Ways The Koch Brothers Are Screwing America
FILE - In this Aug. 30, 2013 file photo, Americans for Prosperity Foundation Chairman David Koch speaks in Orlando, Fla. The billionaire conservative Koch brothers benefited from the health care law they abhor by letting "Obamacare" subsidize health care for employees not yet old enough to retire. The program, shuttered last month, paid out more than $1 million to one of the interests held by the conservative campaign financiers. (AP Photo/Phelan M. Ebenhack, File)
FILE - In this Aug. 30, 2013 file photo, Americans for Prosperity Foundation Chairman David Koch speaks in Orlando, Fla. The billionaire conservative Koch brothers benefited from the health care law they abhor by letting "Obamacare" subsidize health care for employees not yet old enough to retire. The program, shuttered last month, paid out more than $1 million to one of the interests held by the conservative campaign financiers. (AP Photo/Phelan M. Ebenhack, File)

"They are truly cowards in the worst way," says filmmaker Robert Greenwald, of the notorious billionaires Charles and David Koch. And he should know. After he released his 2012 documentary, "The Koch Brothers Exposed," Koch-funded organizations took out ads trying to discredit Greenwald and his work, yet the brothers still declined his repeated offers to debate the topics covered in the film, like the re-segregation of schools and the defanging of the EPA. "I wanted to engage in a policy debate," he says. "But they won't engage."

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