This Billionaire Family is Suffocating Rural America

Just 4 companies control almost all the fertilizer in America. Fertilizer prices have tripled since 1980, farmers are struggling, and it could get even worse. Now the Kochs are planning a billion-dollar merger to drive up prices for farmers—and suffocate rural America—even more.

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[frankjandl]

I have NEVER seen a business merger that lived up to the promise of lowering prices.

[LavenderSkyla]

Koch had no business talking about poor people being poor when their greediness is costing everyone more

[austinlyles]

Corporate greed is killing this nation.

[cruzan]

Many people think that it’s ok if other groups suffer. They don’t understand that greed has no limits.

[BrianMoore-ukjs]

This is what oligarchy in America looks like.

[GenerationX]

Most Americans defend billionaires the same way someone in an abusive relationship defends their abuser. It's ridiculous!

[satevo]

Get the tax payer to pay for it to be built, then privatize it and keep the profits. This is happening literally everywhere in this country. Socialized cost, privatized gains.

[celiagraham]

And foolishly many farmers voted for the guy who is now putting these kinds of people in office. Oligarchy is only good for Koch, not for farmers.

[TheSimba]

it's not a free market when a couple people own it

[gordonmills]

Anti-trust laws exist because we've been through this before. We've had monopolies and a few companies in charge of everything. It led to massive income inequality and a crashed economy a century ago. Corporate consolidation simply doesn't work. Yet here we are again. Making the same mistakes over and over. A hundred years ago it was Carnegie and J.P. Morgan. Now it's the Koch family. We learned it then, but we forgot.

[ForeverYoung-fceo]

The world is such a sad place filled with greedy people and corporations.

[Dirtcheapdeals]

These billionaires won't be satisfied until they end up like the united healthcare guy.

[willm]

The name Koch has become synonymous with greed

[ervinmiracle]

How many times did these farmers elect Koch-supported candidates???

[dorthymcbride]

THE KOCHS MONOPOLY NEEDS TO BE DISBANDED!

[darrtrubb]

This video touches on a glaring, yet little-known, problem in today’s America - the lack of anti-trust enforcement by government. It doesn’t just affect the agricultural industry, but each and every aspect of American life, yet almost no one talks about it.

[phyllisgenetti]

Never satisfied with their billions. Really disgusting this stuff goes on in our country.

[Imjustacatlady]

Greed has ruined our country, our society, our planet. Greed is the root of all evil, it really is. 😢

[BobNewheart-CAMICOFLOKGAILTN]

WOW. Imagine what a social democratic economy would look like helping farmers rather than strangling them to death.

Unfortunately, most of these farmers often vote against their own financial and personal interests.

[sudasummers]

What happened to not being able to have a monopoly in USA. Remember breaking up Bell company?