Are you aware of the other Koch brother? The one who resembles Marie Antoinette?

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Bill Koch's twin brother David and his older brother Charles are well know to DUers as the "men" behind Wisconsin's Scott Walker. But Bill Koch, worth $3.6 billion, is building a "western world" in western Colorado. It reminds me of how Marie Antoinette built her own fantasy world to live in outside Versailles Palace except this one is more Calamity Jane Cowboy than peasant queen.

Get this: Bill wants to trade 900 acres of his land for 1800 acres of our BLM land so that he can have more privacy at his western world. What an outrage! He thinks he's entitled to greater privacy and he's going to shaft us on a land deal to get it!

An article, "The Price of Privacy," from yesterday's Sunday Denver Post describes his resort as "Part Dodge City, part Neverland." Doesn't this whole thing just scream out for more taxes on these truly "worthless" billionaires?



http://www.denverpost.com/opinion/ci_19159861

[cyberpj]

1. "Western World" LOL Reminds me of this old Yul Brenner horror movie I once saw called Westworld:

Westworld (1973)
88 min - Action | Sci-Fi | Thriller - 21 November 1973 (USA)

A robot malfunction creates havoc and terror for unsuspecting vacationers at a futuristic, adult-themed amusement park.

Director: Michael Crichton
Writer: Michael Crichton
Stars:Yul Brynner, Richard Benjamin and James Brolin


http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070909/

edited to add link

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3. What a fun comparison!

[Merlot]

7. Awesome movie!

[TwilightGardener]

2. What an asshole. And Colorado is only too happy to help him do it.

[hfojvt]

4. I first heard of Bill Koch years ago

when Politics1 had him listed as a potential candidate for the US Senate.

It was expected that he would run as a Democrat.

He has made some contributions to some Democrats http://www.denverpost.com/opinion/ci_19159857

[LiberalEsto]

5. Let's send him to Mars!

He can have all the privacy he wants.

[Tsiyu]

6. Privacy Shmivacy

There's either oil or mineral rights attached to that land.

Koch Boys don't trade nothin' unless they win - and win big.

[jmowreader]

8. You want more privacy, Bill? Here's more privacy...

Simply landlock his land with a mile-wide ring of forest land, and declare that ring to be federally protected wilderness. (Motor vehicles aren't allowed in federally protected wilderness.)

After he walks two miles in the snow every time he needs a carton of milk, privacy might be a little less important to him.

[Initech]

9. Is there anything those assholes do that isn't illegal?