Climate-change socialists–those who push for more government power to control (other) people’s “carbon footprints”–sometimes spin a tale about the influence of oil billionaires, or the fossil fuel industry, in politics.
They claim that wealthy political donors spend millions to push free-market economics, and thwart the supposedly sensible policies promoted by government supremacists.
Nothing could be further from the truth. Polling overwhelmingly supports free markets, and shows American voters hold socialism and climate-change-cap-and-trade proposals in disdain.
While free-market donors have spent a few hundred thousand dollars to inform people about flaws in the government’s climate agenda, the government and its supporters have spent billions to promote that agenda.
The single biggest political donor in a political cycle in history is Tom Steyer, a billionaire who spent an all-time-record $75 million in 2014 to promote climate-change-alarmist candidates. Now we read that Steyer has already spent $5 million on a climate-change-socialist super PAC as the 2016 election cycle gets underway.
Steyer also spends millions to promote the perception that free-market-oriented billionaires are spending too much on politics. See here.
