tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8358039.post8774192104777259617..comments2024-03-25T15:17:04.488-07:00Comments on Captain Capitalism: How to Measure Corporate WelfareCaptain Capitalismhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05620212946121617985noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8358039.post-35306048667140612562016-05-14T10:30:03.688-07:002016-05-14T10:30:03.688-07:00If a company or individual makes a bribe to a poli...If a company or individual makes a bribe to a politician it is a crime not corporate welfare. But money does change hands to affect laws and regulations. There is a school of thought that corporations wouldn't have to do this if government was not so invasive into capitalism/business. Imagine you own/run a company and politicians are going to create regulations that could put you out of business. Would you spend money to lobby them to at the least make the regulations allow you to continue to exist? <br /><br />Tax treatments/exemptions/rates/etc. are not corporate welfare either. Allowing someone or a company to keep more of their own money is not welfare.<br /><br />Real corporate welfare is taking money from tax payers and giving it to a corporation with no strings attached. If the money is given to them to force them to do something the government wants it would NOT be corporate welfare.<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8358039.post-47246690573920205842016-05-10T06:12:50.348-07:002016-05-10T06:12:50.348-07:00Corporate welfare is still probably better than re...Corporate welfare is still probably better than regular welfare or useless-degree welfaregrey enlightenmenthttp://greyenlightenment.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8358039.post-4705753090760207312016-05-10T05:58:12.528-07:002016-05-10T05:58:12.528-07:00Annually is different than all welfare everAnnually is different than all welfare everAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8358039.post-86000480614173448352016-05-09T18:16:07.328-07:002016-05-09T18:16:07.328-07:00Just to understand, you're saying that all cor...Just to understand, you're saying that all corporate welfare ever in the US is $0.5T (including corruption, excluding bailouts)? So corporate welfare is (0.5/19)= 2.6% explanation for the deficit?<br /><br />Hardly significant in the grand scheme, but significant enough to investigate for potential remediation after the other 97.4% is etched out.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8358039.post-6555874293363429572016-05-09T18:01:49.253-07:002016-05-09T18:01:49.253-07:00I think to leftists a corporate tax rate of less t...I think to leftists a corporate tax rate of less than 100 percent would be considered corporate welfare.minutemanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13761939172653400728noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8358039.post-55038707123161052192016-05-09T16:20:07.351-07:002016-05-09T16:20:07.351-07:00$500 Billion... Wouldn't put a dent in the fed...$500 Billion... Wouldn't put a dent in the federal budget.<br /><br />Let's be clear, in 2014 the Hussein Obama government listed "Welfare" (specifically that word) as costing the US taxpayer $500 Billion.<br />I'll also point out that the entire military budget for that year was also about $500 Billion.<br /><br />This "Welfare" also does not include things like: Food stamps, social security, unemployment, and medicair either as those were listed in their own parts separately.<br /><br />Considering the tax 'revenue' of the US government in 2014 constituted ~$2 Trillion, and the federal government spent over $3 trillion, of which ~75% constituted 5th amendment violating wealth redistribution... an extra $500 B wouldn't stop a damn thing.<br /><br />It is important to point out however, by shutting down Medicair, social security, and welfare the cost savings would give the US yearly budget a surplus of around $1 Trillion each year.<br /><br />Go figure why lefties refuse to do anything about those.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06045208720241222203noreply@blogger.com