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by British businessman [[Antony Fisher]]<ref>{{cite news |author=May, John Allan |date=January 19, 1984 |title=A quiet Briton whose think tanks back a free market |work=[[The Christian Science Monitor]] |page=9 |url=http://www.csmonitor.com/1984/0119/011934.html}}<br />{{cite news |author=Henderson, Keith |date=May 3, 1985 |title=Think tanks spread free-market ideas worldwide |work=[[The Christian Science Monitor]] |page=23 |url=http://www.csmonitor.com/1985/0503/datlas.html}}</ref> together with Dallas businessmen Russell Perry (CEO of [[Delek Group|Republic Financial Services]]),<ref>{{cite news |author=Jennings, Diane |date=November 30, 1986 |title=Russell Perry - A transplanted Yankess combines his understanding of business and the community to become a major fund-raiser in his adopted city of Dallas |work=[[The Dallas Morning News]] |page=1E |url=http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=DM&p_theme=dm&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&s_hidethis=no&p_field_label-0=Author&p_field_label-1=title&p_bool_label-1=AND&p_field_label-2=Section&p_bool_label-2=AND&s_dispstring=Russell%20Perry%20AND%20date(11/30/1986%20to%2011/30/1986)&p_field_date-0=YMD_date&p_params_date-0=date:B,E&p_text_date-0=11/30/1986%20to%2011/30/1986)&p_field_advanced-0=&p_text_advanced-0=(Russell%20Perry)&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&xcal_useweights=no}}<br />{{cite web |author=Aycock, Thomas Matthew |date=January 18, 2008 |title=Republic Financial Services |publisher=[[Texas State Historical Association]] |url=http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/RR/djruq.html}}</ref> [[D. Wayne Calloway|Wayne Calloway]] (CEO of [[Frito-Lay]]), John F. Stephens (CEO of [[Old Republic International|Employers Insurance of Texas]]),<ref>{{cite news |author=Simnacher,Joe |date=May 6, 2004 |title=John F. Stephens - Veteran, executive, civic activist |work=[[The Dallas Morning News]] |page=9B |url=http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=DM&p_theme=dm&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&s_hidethis=no&p_field_label-0=Author&p_field_label-1=title&p_bool_label-1=AND&p_text_label-1=John%20F.%20Stephens&p_field_label-2=Section&p_bool_label-2=AND&s_dispstring=headline(John%20F.%20Stephens)%20AND%20date(05/06/2004%20to%2005/06/2004)&p_field_date-0=YMD_date&p_params_date-0=date:B,E&p_text_date-0=05/06/2004%20to%2005/06/2004)&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&xcal_useweights=no}}</ref> and Jere W. Thompson (CEO of the [[7-11|Southland Corporation]]).

 

 

==History==

 

The NCPA was a member of the [[Cooler Heads Coalition]], an organization that described itself as "an alliance of some two dozen non-profit public policy groups concerned about the implications of the [[Kyoto Protocol]] for consumers," and which was generally skeptical of the [[human impact on the environment|anthropogenic]] theory of global warming.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nonprofitwatch.org/edf/ncppr.php|title=Testimony of David A. Ridenour Before the House Subcommittee on National Economic Growth| date=1999-07-15| publisher=nonprofitwatch.org}}</ref> NCPA has also attempted to debunk [[peak oil]] claims.{{Citation needed|date=August 2010}}

 

==Funding==

 

According to [[Greenpeace]], the NCPA received at least USD&nbsp;570,000 from [[Koch Industries]] in the eleven-year period ending in 2008.<ref name="greenpeace.org"/>

 

==Views==

In a 2010 pamphlet entitled "What does Health Reform Mean for You?", the NCPA asserted without referencing any sources that under the health care reform law: "Most employers will have to reduce what they pay in wages and other benefits in order to afford the required coverage" and that "The extra burden on employers could cost as many as 700,000 jobs by 2019." <ref>http://www.ncpa.org/HealthReform</ref>

 

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