Cutting Corporate Welfare
Take the Rich off Welfare
Corporate Nation
Megabankruptcies
S & L Bailout
Re-thinking Global Economy
Who Really Pays?
Citizens for Tax Justice
Corporation Watch
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Responsible Wealth
Cato Institute
Corporate Welfare Shame Page
Global Exchange
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Corporate Welfare
Little Guy gets Crunched
Become a Top Banana
Empire of the Pigs
Durant, Where It All Began
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Government destroys family farms in favor of big corporations
May 14, 2002: Bush signs farm subsidies,
"bill will endanger the few remaining family farms because of the
massive new support for ...factory farms...to swallow up their smaller neighbors."
Washington Post,
Bush Signs Bill Providing Big Farm Subsidy Increases
Aug 17, 2001: Big Hog Farms:
"Tax payer dollars...pay for environmental damage...which increasingly benefit
the wealthiest growers....hastening the demise of the family farm."
Washington Post,
For Big Hog Farms, Big Subsidies
April 22, 2002: Vermont Representative Bernie Sanders
Save the Family Farm Stop the Corporatization of Agriculture
Dec 21, 2006:
"The shift in subsidies to wealthier farmers is helping to fuel
this consolidation of farmland."
Washington Post,
Federal Subsidies Turn Farms Into Big Business
Corporations pay no taxes, and get yours?
October 20, 2000:
"Texaco, for example, received a tax rebate of
$67.76 million, which meant that it paid taxes at a rate of negative 37.2
percent..."
Washington Post,
Big Firms Said to Avoid Minimum Federal Tax
Nov 7, 2001: How Generous Corporate Campaign Donors Save Billions in Taxes -
ITEP,
Buy Now, Pay Later
Oct 19, 2000: ITEP
Surge in tax avoidance
Feb 3, 2002: Washington Post, Page 10, "Enron paid no taxes in 2000
and received a $278 million rebate..." by Glenn Kessler
April 17, 2002: Corporate Welfare Will Cost Taxpayers More Than $170 Billion This Year,
Citizens for Tax Justice
Jan 17, 2002: Enron paid no corporate income taxes in four of the last five years,
Citizens for Tax Justice
Feb 29, 2000:
"The Treasury Department yesterday launched a broad regulatory attack on tax schemes
that have allowed U.S. corporations to avoid billions of dollars a year in taxes and
left individuals shouldering a bigger share of the tax burden."
By Glenn Kessler, Washington Post Staff Writer, Page A01
March 18, 2002:
"They have no staff, no offices, and no business activity in these countries, and
exist for the primary purpose of shielding income from the IRS. "
Rep Bernie Sanders: We Must Abolish Off-Shore Tax Shelters
February 3, 2003:
"To save millions of dollars in property taxes, Walt Disney World has
cattle grazing on its property, and SeaWorld Orlando and Universal Orlando
are in the pine tree growing business."
Coasters, cows and cash in Florida
You pay their expenses, they keep the profits
April 17, 2002: "We have got to stop rewarding big corporations for despoiling
the environment, cutting jobs and moving operations overseas."
Rep. Bernie Sanders
March 7, 2001: "The federal government lost $126 million in 1998 from logging on
national forests...The agency spent $672 million to administer timber sales.."
Anchorage Daily News
June 30, 2000: "Once NIH has successfully developed a new drug, funded by U.S. taxpayers, it signs over
monopoly commercial rights to big pharmaceutical companies which can - and do - charge
American consumers as much as they want."
Senator Paul Wellstone
H.R. 626, "corporate welfare giveaway of billions of dollars worth of taxpayer-financed intellectual
property to huge, profitable pharmaceutical companies."
Offered by Reps. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA), Peter DeFazio (D-OR), and Tom Campbell (R-CA)
Terrorism for profit, here is the latest stimilus package:
$1.4 billion for IBM, $833 million for General Motors,
$671 million for General Electric, $572 million for Chevron Texaco,
$254 million for Enron
Testimony of Ralph Nader Before the Committee
on the Budget U.S. House of Representatives June 30, 1999
HOW CORPORATE WELFARE WON: Clinton and Congress Retreat from Cutting Business Subsidies
The Other Welfare Queens
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