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Originally Posted by albed
More of that stupid "corporate welfare" bullshit. I've never seen any line in any government budget handing out money to a corporation.
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handing out money is not the only form of welfare for corporations or people. but if you're looking for actual straightforward giveaways, you can look at $15 billion in direct airline industry subsidies in the last five years, for one. but since corporate welfare takes a lot of forms, it's also helpful to look at things like the mining law of 1872, which lets the mining industry continue to extract publicly owned resources and pay a fraction of market-rate royalties, Cooperative Research and Development Agreements, or CRADAs, in which government scientists help private companies develop technologies, agricultural subsidies, import tariffs which tilt a free market playing field towards US Corporations etc etc. etc.