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DdC · 03-21-2009, 01:38 AM

Drove my chevy to the levee,
But the levee was dry.
And them good old boys were drinkin’ whiskey and rye
Singin’, "this’ll be the day that I die.
- Don McLean

Corporate Welfare Rats

Corporate Welfare The Shame Page

# Corrupt Government Giveaways Will Continue, Admits Congressman
# Help Taxpayers -- Take Big Oil Off Welfare
# Government Fails to Collect Public Revenue
# Taxpayers Deserve to Know How Their Money is Squandered
# Military Spending Scandal -- The Department of Waste
# Some Courts Take Steps Against Corporate Welfare Queens
# Wal-Mart Welfare
# Using Corporate Welfare to Bias Elections
# Corporate Welfare Queens Laugh as Toady Scrambles to Give Them Handouts -- D.C.'s Corrupt Mayor Wants to Give Away $440 Million While Schools Rot
# World's Biggest Corporation is a Welfare Queen
# To Boost Corporate Welfare Giveaways, U.S. Forest Service Tells Lies
# WTO Rules Against U.S. Cotton Subsidies In Landmark Decision
# Amid Huge Deficits, Congress Still Spending on Welfare Handouts to Timber Corporations
# Federal Subsidies to Private Luxury Landowners
# Congress Continues With Corruption and Failure -- Handouts to Large Agribusiness Corporations
# Water Subsidies Go To Agribusiness Corporations
# Administration Tells Taxpayers to Pay for Mining Companies' Toxic Pollution
# Welfare Bribery Scandal Hits Jeb Bush But Nobody Cares
# Corporate Welfare Harms Public Schools, Says New Report</I>

Individuals in California pay more than ten times as much for water as do the biggest agribusiness corporations.

TESTIMONY of Stephen Moore
Director of Fiscal Policy Studies
Cato Institute Washington, D.C.
before the Budget Committee U.S. House of Representatives
Corporate Subsidies in the Federal Budget June 30, 1999

1) Corporate welfare is a large and growing component of the federal budget. America's most costly welfare recipients today are Fortune 500 companies. In 1997 the Fortune 500 corporations recorded best-ever earnings of $325 billion, yet incredibly Uncle Sam doled out nearly $75 billion in taxpayer subsidies.

2) Almost all of the most egregious subsidies are in the forms of federal expenditures, not tax loopholes... These spending programs not only cost taxpayers money directly, but also create an unhealthy corporate dependence on federal subsidies.

3) Many Fortune 500 companies are double and triple dippers.

4) There are no time limits for corporate welfare benefits.

5) If all corporate welfare were eliminated, the savings would be large enough to entirely eliminate the capital gains tax or the death tax.

* We could cut the personal income tax, the corporate income tax, or the payroll tax.

* We could entirely abolish the capital gains tax or the death tax.

* We could help finance a flat tax at a rate of 20 percent for all Americans.

6) Corporate welfare corrupts the political process. One perverse, but predictable outcome of a $100 billion-plus corporate welfare state is that industry begins to view Congress, rather than consumers, as their real customers. Moreover, industry has done an all effective job at protecting their subsidies.

Federal Budget: Economic Stimulus Bill Stimulates Drug War, Too

Law enforcement was among the winners in the massive economic stimulus bill passed last week by Congress and signed this week by President Obama. The package includes nearly $3.8 billion for state and local law enforcement, much of it destined for enforcing the country's draconian drug laws. Public safety wish list from the US Conference of Mayors

$1.6 million for SWAT equipment, $56,000 for military grade rifles, $625,000 for unmanned aerial surveillance drones, and $130,000 for "covert operations"

(See more wish list examples at Radley Balko's The Agitator.)

may be coming to a police force near you soon

The US Gulag Prison System

Money Spent on the War On Drugs this Year
$4,425,742,0 10 22:28pdt

The U.S. federal government spent over $19 billion dollars in 2003 on the War on Drugs, at a rate of about $600 per second. The budget has since been increased by over a billion dollars.

People Arrested for Drug Law Offenses this Year
407,434 10 22:28pdt

People Arrested for Cannabis Law Offenses this Year
193,128

Throwing Away the Key or the Taxpayers' Money? (PDF)

"Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth."
- John F. Kennedy

Gunut Rant

FAMM - All about Mandatory Minimum Sentencing

Charlton Heston died
NRA's MandatoryMinimum didn't...

Heston served four terms as president of the National Rifle Association between 1997 and 2001. He became one of the organization's most effective spokesmen.

National Rifle Association (NRA)
Their campaign for longer sentences...

The NRA strikes Back By Chris Bryson

An important and largely overlooked force driving the prison boom in the United States is the National Rifle Association. With a membership of some 3 million, an estimated war chest of $140 million, and paid lobbyists in ail 50 states, the NRA has thrown its weight behind so-called "get tough on crime" measures and prison-building initiatives.

420 Dysfunction Junction, Incarceration Nation

Blessed is the Police State?
Exporting DEAmocracy

400 agents x $60/hr...

Target DEAth Merchants

At DEA, our mission is to fight drug trafficking in order to make drug abuse the most expensive, unpleasant, risky, and disreputable form of recreation a person could have.
-- Donnie Marshall, Administrator of the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA)

Authoritarians

This is part of our global contribution. The drug war has become the preferred foreign policy approach toward controlling much of the world. We export our drug war, our tactics, and, most of all, our DEA.
(Now with offices in Belize, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Mexico, Canada, Panama, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Honduras, Paraguay, Colombia, Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, Venezuela, Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Chile, Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Dominica, Grenada, St. Kitts & Nevis, St. Vincent & the Grenadines, St. Lucia, Aruba, Netherlands Antilles, Suriname, Jamaica, The Bahamas, Turks & Caicos Islands, Haiti, Guyana, Trinidad & Tobago, Suriname, Dominican Republic, Cambodia, Thailand, Mongolia, Australia, Cook Islands, Fiji, French Polynesia, New Caldeonia, New Zealand, Niue, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Tokelau, Tonga, Tuvalu, Vanuatu, Wallis & Futuna, Western Samoa, Vietnam, Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan, Malaysia, Kiribati, Nauru, Philippines, Burma, South Korea, Brunei, East Timor, Indonesia, Singapore, Japan, Laos, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Turkey, Greece, The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Romania, Bahrain, Chad, Dijibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kuwait, Libya, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Yemen, Oman, Pakistan, United Arab Emirates, Afghanistan, Russia, Bangladesh, India, Maldives, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Cyprus, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, Kazakstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Liechtenstein, Switzerland, Belgium, Luxembourg, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Greenland, Iceland, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Sweden, Czech Republic, Germany, Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, The Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Togo, Western Sahara, Channel Islands, Ireland, Isle of Man, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom, Azores, Balearic Islands, Canary Islands, Cape Verde, Gibraltar, Portugal, Principality of Andorra, Spain, Spanish Enclaves (Ceuta & Melilla), Algeria, France, Monaco, Morocco, Tunisia, Angola, Botswana, Burundi, Central African Republic, Comoros, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Rwanda, Seychelles, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Albania, Bosnia, Croatia, Italy, Malta, Montenegro, San Marino, Serbia, Slovenia, Netherlands, Poland, Austria, Belarus, Hungary, Moldova, Slovak Republic, Ukraine.)

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DdC Decade Yahookan Join Date: Feb 1999 Location: Santa Cruz,CA,USA Posts: 2,088 Blog Entries: 5 Thanks: 47 Thanked 570 Times in 378 Posts	bye-bye, miss american pie. Drove my chevy to the levee, But the levee was dry. And them good old boys were drinkin’ whiskey and rye Singin’, "this’ll be the day that I die. - Don McLean Corporate Welfare Rats Corporate Welfare The Shame Page # Corrupt Government Giveaways Will Continue, Admits Congressman # Help Taxpayers -- Take Big Oil Off Welfare # Government Fails to Collect Public Revenue # Taxpayers Deserve to Know How Their Money is Squandered # Military Spending Scandal -- The Department of Waste # Some Courts Take Steps Against Corporate Welfare Queens # Wal-Mart Welfare # Using Corporate Welfare to Bias Elections # Corporate Welfare Queens Laugh as Toady Scrambles to Give Them Handouts -- D.C.'s Corrupt Mayor Wants to Give Away $440 Million While Schools Rot # World's Biggest Corporation is a Welfare Queen # To Boost Corporate Welfare Giveaways, U.S. Forest Service Tells Lies # WTO Rules Against U.S. Cotton Subsidies In Landmark Decision # Amid Huge Deficits, Congress Still Spending on Welfare Handouts to Timber Corporations # Federal Subsidies to Private Luxury Landowners # Congress Continues With Corruption and Failure -- Handouts to Large Agribusiness Corporations # Water Subsidies Go To Agribusiness Corporations # Administration Tells Taxpayers to Pay for Mining Companies' Toxic Pollution # Welfare Bribery Scandal Hits Jeb Bush But Nobody Cares # Corporate Welfare Harms Public Schools, Says New Report</I> Individuals in California pay more than ten times as much for water as do the biggest agribusiness corporations. TESTIMONY of Stephen Moore Director of Fiscal Policy Studies Cato Institute Washington, D.C. before the Budget Committee U.S. House of Representatives Corporate Subsidies in the Federal Budget June 30, 1999 1) Corporate welfare is a large and growing component of the federal budget. America's most costly welfare recipients today are Fortune 500 companies. In 1997 the Fortune 500 corporations recorded best-ever earnings of $325 billion, yet incredibly Uncle Sam doled out nearly $75 billion in taxpayer subsidies. 2) Almost all of the most egregious subsidies are in the forms of federal expenditures, not tax loopholes... These spending programs not only cost taxpayers money directly, but also create an unhealthy corporate dependence on federal subsidies. 3) Many Fortune 500 companies are double and triple dippers. 4) There are no time limits for corporate welfare benefits. 5) If all corporate welfare were eliminated, the savings would be large enough to entirely eliminate the capital gains tax or the death tax. * We could cut the personal income tax, the corporate income tax, or the payroll tax. * We could entirely abolish the capital gains tax or the death tax. * We could help finance a flat tax at a rate of 20 percent for all Americans. 6) Corporate welfare corrupts the political process. One perverse, but predictable outcome of a $100 billion-plus corporate welfare state is that industry begins to view Congress, rather than consumers, as their real customers. Moreover, industry has done an all effective job at protecting their subsidies. Federal Budget: Economic Stimulus Bill Stimulates Drug War, Too Law enforcement was among the winners in the massive economic stimulus bill passed last week by Congress and signed this week by President Obama. The package includes nearly $3.8 billion for state and local law enforcement, much of it destined for enforcing the country's draconian drug laws. Public safety wish list from the US Conference of Mayors $1.6 million for SWAT equipment, $56,000 for military grade rifles, $625,000 for unmanned aerial surveillance drones, and $130,000 for "covert operations" (See more wish list examples at Radley Balko's The Agitator.) may be coming to a police force near you soon The US Gulag Prison System Money Spent on the War On Drugs this Year $4,425,742,0 10 22:28pdt The U.S. federal government spent over $19 billion dollars in 2003 on the War on Drugs, at a rate of about $600 per second. The budget has since been increased by over a billion dollars. People Arrested for Drug Law Offenses this Year 407,434 10 22:28pdt People Arrested for Cannabis Law Offenses this Year 193,128 Throwing Away the Key or the Taxpayers' Money? (PDF) "Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth." - John F. Kennedy Gunut Rant FAMM - All about Mandatory Minimum Sentencing Charlton Heston died NRA's MandatoryMinimum didn't... Heston served four terms as president of the National Rifle Association between 1997 and 2001. He became one of the organization's most effective spokesmen. National Rifle Association (NRA) Their campaign for longer sentences... The NRA strikes Back By Chris Bryson An important and largely overlooked force driving the prison boom in the United States is the National Rifle Association. With a membership of some 3 million, an estimated war chest of $140 million, and paid lobbyists in ail 50 states, the NRA has thrown its weight behind so-called "get tough on crime" measures and prison-building initiatives. 420 Dysfunction Junction, Incarceration Nation Blessed is the Police State? Exporting DEAmocracy 400 agents x $60/hr... Target DEAth Merchants At DEA, our mission is to fight drug trafficking in order to make drug abuse the most expensive, unpleasant, risky, and disreputable form of recreation a person could have. -- Donnie Marshall, Administrator of the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) Authoritarians This is part of our global contribution. The drug war has become the preferred foreign policy approach toward controlling much of the world. We export our drug war, our tactics, and, most of all, our DEA. (Now with offices in Belize, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Mexico, Canada, Panama, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Honduras, Paraguay, Colombia, Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, Venezuela, Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Chile, Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Dominica, Grenada, St. Kitts & Nevis, St. Vincent & the Grenadines, St. Lucia, Aruba, Netherlands Antilles, Suriname, Jamaica, The Bahamas, Turks & Caicos Islands, Haiti, Guyana, Trinidad & Tobago, Suriname, Dominican Republic, Cambodia, Thailand, Mongolia, Australia, Cook Islands, Fiji, French Polynesia, New Caldeonia, New Zealand, Niue, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Tokelau, Tonga, Tuvalu, Vanuatu, Wallis & Futuna, Western Samoa, Vietnam, Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan, Malaysia, Kiribati, Nauru, Philippines, Burma, South Korea, Brunei, East Timor, Indonesia, Singapore, Japan, Laos, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Turkey, Greece, The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Romania, Bahrain, Chad, Dijibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kuwait, Libya, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Yemen, Oman, Pakistan, United Arab Emirates, Afghanistan, Russia, Bangladesh, India, Maldives, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Cyprus, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, Kazakstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Liechtenstein, Switzerland, Belgium, Luxembourg, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Greenland, Iceland, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Sweden, Czech Republic, Germany, Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, The Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Togo, Western Sahara, Channel Islands, Ireland, Isle of Man, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom, Azores, Balearic Islands, Canary Islands, Cape Verde, Gibraltar, Portugal, Principality of Andorra, Spain, Spanish Enclaves (Ceuta & Melilla), Algeria, France, Monaco, Morocco, Tunisia, Angola, Botswana, Burundi, Central African Republic, Comoros, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Rwanda, Seychelles, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Albania, Bosnia, Croatia, Italy, Malta, Montenegro, San Marino, Serbia, Slovenia, Netherlands, Poland, Austria, Belarus, Hungary, Moldova, Slovak Republic, Ukraine.)