“I have never met the senator, but I know from listening to him that we disagree on plenty when it comes to public policy,” Charles Koch wrote. | Getty Charles Koch agrees with Bernie Sanders on income inequality

Charles Koch wants Bernie Sanders to know that he agrees with him on income inequality.

“The senator is upset with a political and economic system that is often rigged to help the privileged few at the expense of everyone else, particularly the least advantaged. He believes that we have a two-tiered society that increasingly dooms millions of our fellow citizens to lives of poverty and hopelessness,” the conservative megadonor who largely funds libertarian causes, wrote in a Washington Post op-ed that was posted on the newspaper’s website on Thursday afternoon. “He thinks many corporations seek and benefit from corporate welfare while ordinary citizens are denied opportunities and a level playing field. I agree with him.”


The billionaire businessman and philanthropist said that both political parties and the business community are responsible for pushing for and enacting policies that “perpetuate a cycle of control, dependency, cronyism and poverty in the United States.”

But Koch won’t be throwing his money behind the Vermont senator anytime soon, and Sanders probably wouldn't want it, considering he spends a significant amount of time on the trail bashing the Koch brothers. Sanders often warns supporters that the brothers and their donors are spending hundreds of millions of dollars to cut social programs like Medicare, Social Security, and federal aid to education and environmental programs.

“I have never met the senator, but I know from listening to him that we disagree on plenty when it comes to public policy,” Koch wrote.

Last October, Koch had indicated that the network would spend only $750 million on politics and policy after reports indicated that they had pledged $889 million. The larger figure still stands, however, when taking into account their spending on politics and broader policy issues -- such as research and education programs and scholarships -- through 2016.