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when you hear people in this forum who are expert republicans and want to cut spending have you ever heard them want to cut corporate welfare? roflmao at these pompous "A-HOLES":
About $59 billion is spent on traditional social welfare programs. $92 billion is spent on corporate subsidies. So, the government spent 50% more on corporate welfare than it did on food stamps and housing assistance in 2006.
Before we look at the details, a heartfelt plea from the Save the CEOs Charitable Trust:
Theres so much suffering in the world. It can all get pretty overwhelming sometimes. Consider, for a moment the sorrow in the eyes of a CEO whos just found out that his end-of-year bonus is only going to be a paltry $2.3 million.
It felt like a slap in the face. Imagine what it would feel like just before Christmas to find out that youre going to be forced to scrape by on your standard $8.4 million compensation package alone. Imagine what is was like to have to look into my daughters face and tell her that I couldnt afford to both buy her a dollar sign shaped island and hire someone to chew her food from now on, too. To put her in that situation of having to choose Shes only a child for Gods sake.
It doesnt have to be this way. Thanks to federal subsidies from taxpayers like you, CEOs like G. Allen Andreas of Archer Daniels Midland was able to take home almost $14 million in executive compensation last year. But hes one of the lucky ones. There are still corporations out there that actually have to provide goods and services to their consumers in order to survive. They need your help.
For just $93 billion a year the federal government is able to provide a better life for these CEOs and their families. Thats less than the cost of 240 million cups of coffee a day. Wont you help a needy corporation today?
The Traditional Welfare Queen
Definition: social welfare
n. Financial aid, such as a subsidy, provided by a government to specific individuals.
When one thinks about government welfare, the first thing that comes to mind is the proverbial welfare queen sitting atop her majestic throne of government cheese issuing a royal decree to her clamoring throngs of illegitimate babies that they may shut the hell up while she tries to watch Judge Judy. However, many politically well-connected corporations are also parasitically draining their share of fiscal blood from your paycheck before you ever see it. Its called corporate welfare. The intent here is to figure out which presents the greater burden to our federal budget, corporate or social welfare programs.
There are, of course, positive and negative aspects to this spending.The primary negative aspect is that you have to increase taxes to pay for it. Taxing individuals lowers their standard of living. It reduces peoples ability to afford necessities like medical care, education, and low mileage off-road vehicles.The common usage definition of social welfare includes welfare checks and food stamps. Welfare checks are supplied through a federal program called Temporary Aid for Needy Families. Combined federal and state TANF spending was about $26 billion in 2006. In 2009, the federal government will spend about $25 billion on rental aid for low-income households and about $8 billion on public housing projects. For some perspective, thats about 3 percent of the total federal budget.
Note: I do not consider Medicaid to be included in the term welfare as it is used in common parlance. Typically, if one states that someone is on welfare, they mean that the person is receiving direct financial aid from the government. If we included Medicaid in our definition of social welfare, we would also have to consider any service that the government pays for to be welfare. For instance, public roadways to individuals homes would also be considered welfare under that expansive definition.
LETS START HERE BONEYA! OR YOU LACKEY'S ON THE RIGHT! hmm just think you corporations could cut our taxes by refusing your hand out! kids could have new shoes! a chicken in every pot! we could afford to buy insurance with the money we saved in taxes supporting you blood sucking corporations! oops do I sound lie one of those dying republican party members! naw -I'm not whining enough about welfare fraud! you know corporate welfare fraud!