To the editor:

The Kansas Bioscience Authority is funded both by both private and state tax-based monies and is the latest target of highly coordinated, earth-scorching by the Kansas ultra-right toward privatizing all civic services, structures, and projects. The KBA was highly efficient and effective in gaining placement of the National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility in Manhattan. Many states fought hard for that facility.

Next with the KBA, will come a promised audit/investigation by governor appointees which will leak terrible grievances against KBA leadership, such as going out to dinner at a private sector restaurant. We the people must understand that public employees cannot afford such extravagances.

We will then witness a full-scale drive by the governor and Legislature to place KBA under control and management of the executive branch, which will then contract management and control to a front corporation for the Koch brothers. Any outgrowth research or production entities from KBA efforts will be in the trusted hands and profits of our famous billionaire Kansas brothers.

A new corporate manager will be contracted for an annual base salary of $12,500,000, with written-in-the-contract bonuses and severance guarantees of at least $1 billion, should he or she be caught in unethical conduct such as dining-out with a firefighter or a university professor/researcher.

Taxpayers will still fund government projects attracted by KBA efforts, of course, but because the entity is contracted to the trusted private sector, we will never know about those silly details.

Let us now praise famous unfettered markets.