2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumLet's cut Corporate Welfare to Social Welfare levels!
Corporate welfare costs our country way more than social welfare and it effects far fewer people. Both are paid by us, through taxes.
Corporate welfare supports people who earn upwards of 200 to 300 times what the workers for these companies earn.
Many of these companies have workers that earn so little that they need social welfare to get by... even though the corporations are posting record profits.
This is double dipping.
Our taxes pay for corporate welfare and social welfare. Yet, these corporations make profits from underpaid employees. Record profits during these years that our country is struggling.
Forget my thread's title. It should be... "Let's cut Corporate Welfare".
gopiscrap
(23,725 posts)absolutely. What social services are getting is peanuts compared to the rich fuckers owning corporations and or running them.
Laelth
(32,017 posts)-Laelth
indepat
(20,899 posts)tackled people welfare. Yeah! That'll work.
tecelote
(5,122 posts)This is not a good place?
Vincardog
(20,234 posts)and BILL them for it.
BlueinOhio
(238 posts)My sister works at WalMart and we just had talked about this. We need get WalMarts off of government assistance.
CFLDem
(2,083 posts)zeemike
(18,998 posts)Are you kidding?...are you trying to starve them to death?
Sure they get more, but they are so much bigger than us little people...they have to eat more...
Sorry I was just feeling snarkey...it is a wonderful idea...I say end that socialist program altogether.
tecelote
(5,122 posts)I like that. Almost sounds like a Republican angle.
zeemike
(18,998 posts)And it would not be a lie.
japple
(9,805 posts)because they are so much more important than you or me. The "job creators" who make work for the little folks. YES, those folks who are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness; not those of us who have to sweep up after them--the 99%ers.
zeemike
(18,998 posts)It would cost them thousands of dollars to bribe the congress not to pass it.
Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)You know,...because the companies couldn't afford to give pay raises.
raging moderate
(4,292 posts)I love the idea of billing corporations such as Walmart and McDonald's. When they refuse to pay a living wage, they are the true freeloaders.
blkmusclmachine
(16,149 posts)DeSwiss
(27,137 posts)K&R