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corporate welfare
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corporate welfare
n.
Financial aid, such as a subsidy or tax break, provided by a government to corporations or other businesses, especially when viewed as wasteful or unjust: "critics who say that letting big companies raise private stock on public land amounts to corporate welfare" (Frank Clifford).
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Browning doesn't expressly make this point, but the existence of welfare for the poor provides the smokescreen for welfare for the rich.
Sawing off the ladder to success by Leef, George / Regulation
Don Evans Canoga Park Welfare for the rich I am disgusted with the Daily News for backing Measure H, a boondoggle bond that would force thousands of homeowners on limited incomes to subsidize workers who make $104,000 a year.
PUBLIC FORUM by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
If we want to live up to the old saw that the press should "comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable," the TV cameras need to spend more time focused on the ugly realities of welfare for the rich.
Confessions of a welfare queen: how rich bastards like me rip off ... by Stossel, John / Reason
 
 
 
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