Corporate welfare

...houses or even duplexes and apartments. Proposition 13, at least as to corporations, is corporate welfare. A typical middle class family that has owned its house since the 1980s pays less than $3,000 in real estate taxes that constitute the...

In this article: UCLA, Tax, California, US, Revenue, Sacramento, and Recession

...permalink Agreed. They brought nothing to the table and Obama's first move was still to surrender everything. As a result the final bill is a corporate welfare masterpiece that Bush himself would have loved. - + Drdemocrat I'm a Fan of...

In this article: Barack Obama, John Conyers, Rahm Emanuel, GOP, White House, Recession, and Timothy Geithner

...I-era radical Randolph Bourne's formulation that "war is the health of the state," to worry about the connection between corporate warfare and corporate welfare: corporations that donate to political campaigns, hire ex-politicians (such as...

In this article: Stanley McChrystal, United States, Afghanistan, Taliban, Dick Cheney, Pentagon, Washington, Barack Obama, and Democracy

...sane taxation policies that created an equitable tax burden, abandoned the voodoo economics of the trickle-down theory and slashed corporate welfare payments then the resourscs would be available. The fact that they aren't is a choice -...

In this article: Wesleyan University, Bard College, Chemistry, Waste, Cheshire, and Michael S. Roth

...people by cutting indefensible government waste, such as the following examples: c Washington spends $92 billion annually on corporate welfare (not even counting recent corporate bailouts) versus $71 billion on homeland security. c...

In this article: Waste, Washington, Social Security, Inflation, Medicare, and Congressional Budget Office

...media or their workers because they want their employees to lobby for them so Sallie Mae can continue to receive free taxpayer money -- corporate welfare -- from the federal government. I'm outraged that Sallie Mae would emotionally manipulate...

In this article: Fisher, Muncie, WTHR, and Dispatch Broadcast Group

...the MEDC - that's another bullet point that needs to be added. Stop taxing everyone elsoe so the state can make bad investments via corporate welfare for the few that is politically motivated. " Get off the workers wrote on Nov 12, 2009...

In this article: Michigan, Tax, Revenue, Great Lakes, and Fiscal year

...back at capitalism, Pentagon-style. Posted Tuesday, November 10, 2009 - 11:24am In Bailout Nation, Barry Ritholtz's fiery Bible of corporate welfare, the 1971 bailout of Lockheed is depicted as original sin. Lockheed was teetering on the...

In this article: Lockheed, Pentagon, Raytheon, Capitalism, Bankruptcy, Long Island, and Cheyenne

...96 fans permalink He appears to be laboring under the false notion that this country's government is capable of being interested less in corporate welfare than the welfare of the public, or that the public is going to become smart enough...

In this article: Dennis Kucinich, Revenue, Social Darwinism, United States Senate, Bill Gates, The Wizard of Oz, and Democracy Now

Business groups say the change would give cash-strapped companies immediate access to capital, but consumer groups have criticized it as corporate welfare. Continued... The majority of Israelis think Obama is pro-Palestinian and wants...

In this article: Unemployment, Recession, House of Representatives, Barack Obama, Business groups, Tax, and Bankruptcy