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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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And surely if the Grand Avenue project is all its proponents crack it up to be, the idea ought to be able to pencil out without an infusion of $100 million to $200 million in corporate welfare.
EDITORIAL FORGETTING `COMMUNITY' CRA COZIES UP TO DOWNTOWN ELITES by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
Domestic politics [hint: the need to "protect" Americans] and industrial policy [hint: give more corporate welfare, i.
PNAC's plans by Hudson, Mark / The New American
So there's one sense in which the SBA fulfills its mission to level the playing field: You don't have to be a big player to get in on the corporate welfare game.
Tax and lend: small-business subsidies by Howley, Kerry / Reason
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