Koch Industries, funding for free-market and libertarian foundations; funding in 1990

"In recent years" a prescient news story noted in 1992, "money from Wichita has gushed into the coffers of virtually every Washington think tank and public interest group dedicated to free-market economics and the libertarian credo of minuscule government regulation." In 1990 alone, the article noted, the three main private foundations controlled by Charles and David Koch disbursed $4 million to such ostensibly non-partisan but politically motivated groups. (178-179)