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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTop Ten Examples of Welfare for the Rich
One. State and Local Subsidies to Corporations. An excellent New York Times study by Louise Story calculated that state and local government provide at least $80 billion in subsidies to corporations...Two. Direct Federal Subsidies to Corporations. The Cato Institute estimates that federal subsidies to corporations costs taxpayers almost $100 billion every year.
Three. Federal Tax Breaks for Corporations. The tax code gives corporations special tax breaks which reduced what is supposed to be a 35 percent tax rate to an actual tax rate of 13 percent, saving these corporations an additional $200 billion annually, according to the US Government Accountability Office.
Four. Federal Tax Breaks for Wealthy Hedge Fund Managers. Special tax breaks for hedge fund managers allow them to pay only 15% rate while the people they earned the money for usually pay 35% rate. This is the break where the multimillionaire manager pays less of a percentage in taxes than her secretary. The National Priorities Project estimates this costs taxpayers $83 billion annually and 68% of those who receive this special tax break earn more than $462,500 per year (the top one percent of earners).
Five. Subsidy to Fast Food Industry. Research by the University of Illinois and UC Berkeley documents that taxpayers pay about $243 billion each year in indirect subsidies to the fast food industry because they pay wages so low that taxpayers must put up $243 billion to pay for public benefits for their workers...
http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/01/14/top-ten-examples-of-welfare-for-the-rich/
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Top Ten Examples of Welfare for the Rich (Original Post)
El_Johns
Jan 2014
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The Magistrate
(95,244 posts)1. People Need To Get This Through Their Heads, Sir
valerief
(53,235 posts)2. The wealthy each have their own U.S. senators, too. nt
raven mad
(4,940 posts)3. Alaska is the greatest example of Corporate Welfare Syndrome.
Being a wholly-owned subsidiary of Big Oil - our dear ( ) Governor Parnell, that fitting tribute to his lobbying days for Conoco and an apt pupil of Sarah Palin, talked the wingnut majority into giving the Big Oil boys a 2 BILLION dollar tax break. We'll repeal that. I hope.
NYC_SKP
(68,644 posts)4. Recommended. (nt)