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Originally posted by Ustwo
You mean the welfare state is just a front for big business? My god we keep shoveling money into federal programs which have failed year after year, decade after decade, all for the "public good" and you blame the very businesses that generate the wealth which the government taxes in order to fund these black holes?
Do you think ending 'corporate welfare' will do anything beyond causing more jobs to leave the country and lowering over all tax revenues? Just where do you think the tax money comes from? The top 50% wage earners in this country pay 96.03% of the taxes.
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Wow, a number of different memes here. The corporate welfare state has used directly and indirectly more tax dollars then the social one. The numbers are out there is you care to look.
Defining "Return on Investment" with social welfare is more difficult than in a corporate scenario, and if you see the taxes actually paid by big business on their profits it's no where near what individuals pay. Like Iraq all you hear about are the failures and abuses, not the triumphs.
So the individuals are earning the wealth that generates the tax revenue, not the corporations, by your figures. Buttresses my argument. Remember corporations have no soul and don't love you back.
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