Well the thing that leaps out at me from that Wired article about the Kochs, is this:
"the Taxpayers Protection Alliance is a front advocacy group, part of a network of dark-money organizations supported in part by the Koch brothers."
That's the Washington, DC, Tax Protection Alliance (TPA) which was lobbying a city in Kentucky not to provide local broadband.
Rather than the remarkably similarly named UK Taxpayers Alliance (TPA).
I used to think the Taxpayers Alliance were a small band of nutters. But apparently they have serious funding and impact now. This article from 2009 is worth reading in full.
Who is behind the Taxpayers' Alliance?
www.theguardian.com/politics/2009/oct/09/taxpayers-alliance-conservative-pressure-group
Its critics ask whether it really is an alliance of ordinary taxpayers, as the name is clearly intended to suggest, and how close it is to the Tory party hierarchy which seems to have adopted some of its radical ideas.
Certainly not all is as it seems. The same group that speaks out against government waste on Newsnight and in the pages of newspapers also runs a campaign against radicalising schoolbooks published by the Palestinian Authority and has formed an alliance with a Slovakian rightwing group
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The range of its work reflects how influential the group has become in a relatively short space of time, but also raises questions over how it manages to pay for what has become a £1m a year operation. The alliance refuses to publish details of its income or its benefactors.
But a Guardian investigation has established that a large part of its funds come from wealthy donors, many of whom are prominent supporters of the Conservative party.
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Tim Horton, research director of the left-leaning Fabian Society, who has investigated the TPA, claimed the group is “fundamental to the Conservatives’ political strategy”, which he said was to destroy public confidence in politicians’ ability to deliver public services, thereby paving the way for cuts.
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Elliott believes the grassroots support of its main cause will grow.
“I want lots more members,” he said. “I would like to get to a situation where we have as many members as the Liberal Democrats.
“Perhaps our time will come next year if there are public sector strikes [over the proposed Tory cuts]. That will be a key recruiter. We contend that wages in the public sector are higher than for similar jobs in the private sector. On top of that public sector workers have final salary pensions, so if they strike there will be frustration among the general public.”