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Corporate Welfare

Global Capital and the Nation State

Robert Reich | Posted 05.20.2013 | Business
Robert Reich

Google, Amazon, Starbucks, every other major corporation, and every big Wall Street bank, are sheltering as much of their U.S. profits abroad as they can, while telling Washington that lower corporate taxes are necessary in order to keep the U.S. "competitive."

President Obama: Driving on Cruise Control

John Bruhns | Posted 06.08.2013 | Politics
John Bruhns

The president strikes me as a man of good character. He is a family man and an admirable, inspirational person. However, it has become increasingly difficult to decipher where the president stands politically.

Warren Buffett, Waltons Get Welfare From Wisconsin Taxpayers

Al Norman | Posted 06.03.2013 | Business
Al Norman

Two of the richest families on the planet -- the Waltons and the Buffetts -- have taken public welfare from taxpayers to help clean up a contaminated land that will soon sprout a Wal-Mart superstore.

Walmart Spends Your Tax Money to Break the Rules

Grant Stern | Posted 06.01.2013 | Miami
Grant Stern

Once your city sets a precedent ignoring clearly articulated standards to Walmart, how can they say no to the next developer to come along with an idea to make money at the expense of rational planning?

Paul Blumenthal

Tax Break Bill Would Aid Huge Defense Contractor

HuffingtonPost.com | Paul Blumenthal | Posted 03.13.2013 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- In an age of budget cuts and hard choices, state lawmakers in Annapolis, Md., are pushing a benefit for the world's largest defense manu...

Obama Must Lead

Brent Budowsky | Posted 05.07.2013 | Politics
Brent Budowsky

There was no excuse for the president to shout from the rooftops about the dangers of sequester while not doing a thing to prevent it. Americans need jobs, not spin, and leaders, not photo ops.

How to Tame the Corporation

Ralph Nader | Posted 04.27.2013 | Business
Ralph Nader

Large corporations have essentially become private governments with an enormous effect on the lives and livelihoods of Americans, but without any accountability to them.

Running the Tax Dodgers Out of Town

Carl Gibson | Posted 04.14.2013 | Politics
Carl Gibson

Awareness of the unfair tax code that relieves a burden from those who have the most and shifting it to those who can barely scrape by has spread all over America, and Congress will soon have no choice but to acknowledge it.

President Obama -- Get Tough on Corporate Welfare

Ralph Nader | Posted 04.14.2013 | Business
Ralph Nader

There are hundreds of programs in existence that directly or indirectly provide billions of dollars of taxpayer money to corporations. Tonight the president should say he is getting tough on welfare -- corporate welfare.

Missed Opportunity to Ask Corporations to Come Clean on Taxes

George Goehl | Posted 03.11.2013 | Chicago
George Goehl

Will we continue to accept a subservient relationship with big corporations? Or will we restructure our relationship with corporations so instead of us serving them, they begin to serve us. The question is clear. The answer is up to us.

Cut Corporate Welfare, Not the Safety Net

Carl Gibson | Posted 03.09.2013 | Politics
Carl Gibson

Instead of making us give up the pensions and health care that we paid for, why not hold rich companies to the same standards as everyone else when it comes to paying taxes?

'Miracle On Wall Street' Satirizes Government Aid To Corporations

The Huffington Post | Ariel Edwards-Levy | Posted 12.06.2012 | Politics

Budget negotiations have put a damper on Washington's holiday spirit, with House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) threatening to keep Congress in s...

A Good Incentive to End Corporate Welfare: Maine's Kids

Cynthia Dill | Posted 02.03.2013 | Politics
Cynthia Dill

Are these jobs important? Absolutely. Is this the best we can do for future economic prosperity in the region? Absolutely not.

Tax What They Burn Before Tax What We Earn...

Ralph Nader | Posted 01.16.2013 | Politics
Ralph Nader

As America faces the so-called "fiscal cliff," let's turn our attention to our country's systemic tax problem. To paint a picture, imagine our country as a mine car with its brake lines severed, barreling toward an uncertain fate.

Jason Cherkis

Plugged In: Paul Ryan Sought Tax Breaks For Air Freshener Firm

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Cherkis | Posted 10.11.2012 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- Before he became known for his devotion to Ayn Rand novels and his expertise on the ballooning U.S. deficit, Rep. Paul Ryan concerned hi...

Welfare: The Dirty Side of Corporate America

Matthew Lynch, Ed.D. | Posted 11.17.2012 | Black Voices
Matthew Lynch, Ed.D.

The next time you hear someone discussing "welfare reform," ask them if they are referring to those in corporate America to keep mismanaged and failing businesses afloat, or the ones that are helping the people of America to survive.

Welfare for the Rich

Colleen Becker | Posted 11.11.2012 | Business
Colleen Becker

If "taxes are what we pay for civilized society," what can we call welfare in the form of uncollected tax revenue? I think the word is "unnecessary."

Labor Day: Team America, Including Workers, Built That

Leo W. Gerard | Posted 11.03.2012 | Politics
Leo W. Gerard

President Obama made no claim that he built that by himself. On Labor Day, he recognizes the contributions union and non-union workers made to building this great country. All Americans built that.

I'll Root for the Miami Heat, But Never for Arison

Subhash Kateel | Posted 08.12.2012 | Miami
Subhash Kateel

"It ain't where you're from, it's where you're at." With that in mind, let's go Heat. No one can debate how good their game is. So when the NBA finals begin tonight with the jump ball, I know who I am rooting for. But it is not Micky Arison.

If It Ain't Broke, Break It: The Crisis Congress Continues

Rep. Keith Ellison | Posted 06.20.2012 | Business
Rep. Keith Ellison

If the Republicans are serious about aiding small businesses, then they should be all about supporting the Export-Import Bank's mission.

Ryan Grim

Delta Embarrassed By Loan Guarantee From Federal Agency It Wants To End

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 04.06.2012 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- A bizarre lobbying battle that pits Delta Air Lines and the Tea Party against the Export-Import Bank became even more interesting on Thu...

Zach Carter

GOP Senator Gives $500,000 To Corporate Welfare Recipient's Super PAC

HuffingtonPost.com | Zach Carter | Posted 03.24.2012 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) on Tuesday led a conservative Senate bloc opposing a government loan program on the grounds that it functioned ...

On Behalf of the 1%, the Best Bargain Since Manhattan

J.H. Snider | Posted 04.24.2012 | Business
J.H. Snider

Unmentioned is that the payroll-tax cut bill, by bipartisan agreement, sets in motion a much larger transfer of public assets to the top 1%.

Jen Sabella

CME Group's 'Golden Toilet'? Budget Cuts Renew Anger About Chicago TIFs

HuffingtonPost.com | Jen Sabella | Posted 01.25.2012 | Chicago

CHICAGO -- On Tuesday morning, a group of about 50 protesters gathered at the Board of Trade -- home of the CME Group -- to deliver a "golden toilet" ...

America's Welfare Queens Collect TARP Funds, Student Loans and Auto Bailouts, Not Food Stamps

John Hrabe | Posted 03.18.2012 | Politics
John Hrabe

When in trouble, cue a Republican politician's favorite political villain, the welfare queen. You know the stereotype. The single African American mother whose full-time job is having more babies to increase her welfare benefits.