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For nothing in exchange, yes. The rest, as Open the Books is very careful to state, was payment for goods and/or services rendered. Much like people have to pay mortgages or rent and utilities. You can hardly call that corporate welfare. It's simply paying one's bills for goods or services rendered.
"From 2000-2012 democrats and republicans together only gave $21.3 billion dollars to corporations", thats laughable. Halliburton CEO Dick Cheney all by himself gave oil companies more than $21.3 billion dollars.
Here's Dick Cheney giving Haliburton $39.5 billion dollars in no-bid government contracts in Iraq. And since Cheney is a Halliburton CEO you know he padded the contracts so Haliburton could take billions.
They knew what they were buying, power for the unions (specifically the union leaders).
Democrats want to raise min wage for workers, give all workers health insurance, give the middle class tax cuts, give students low interest rate student loans, give small businesses tax cuts, ex.ex. (but the corporate republicans stop them.)
"From 2000-2012 democrats and republicans together only gave $21.3 billion dollars to corporations", thats laughable. Halliburton CEO Dick Cheney all by himself gave oil companies more than $21.3 billion dollars.
Tax breaks don't "give" anyone government money. They just allow corporations to keep more of the money they already had.
Who are among the top beneficiaries of lower taxes on corporations? The millions of American workers and retirees who own $24 trillion worth of equity investments, etc., in their pension/retirement accounts
Higher corporate taxes means lower growth in that $24 trillion pension/retirement investment sector. That means retirees take a hit. Are you sure that's what you want? For millions of American workers and retirees to have less funding for their retirement?
Too many people have a complete lack of understanding that high and/or increasing corporate tax rates is like shooting themselves in the foot, both in regards to the cost-push inflation price increases it causes, and the reduction in retirement funding it would cause.
Do you have any idea how much you're embarrassing yourself by mindlessly parroting class warfare propaganda without actually realizing how corporate tax breaks benefit millions of people in at least 2 different ways?
Democrats want to raise min wage for workers, give all workers health insurance, give the middle class tax cuts, give students low interest rate student loans, give small businesses tax cuts, ex.ex. (but the corporate republicans stop them.)
"From 2000-2012 democrats and republicans together only gave $21.3 billion dollars to corporations", thats laughable. Halliburton CEO Dick Cheney all by himself gave oil companies more than $21.3 billion dollars.
Here's Dick Cheney giving Haliburton $39.5 billion dollars in no-bid government contracts in Iraq. And since Cheney is a Halliburton CEO you know he padded the contracts so Haliburton could take billions.
Actually, Cheney can't do any of that. He was the VP.
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