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Count_Drachma posted...

Outside of government contracts -- such as to prop up green industries and farm subsidies -- "corporate welfare" isn't a f***ing thing.

If a corporation's full-time employees need to be on welfare to make ends meet instead of the corporation simply paying them enough to do so, that corporation is on welfare. This is, of course without even considering the ridiculous ways that corporations (and especially those who own them) exploit loopholes to avoid paying taxes or even receive refunds (which overwhelmingly go into the pockets of those at the top and not into improving the welfare of their employees).

Reminder that 70% of all welfare recipients are working full-time, which means the government is picking up the slack of employers that are unwilling or unable to pay their employees enough to survive (which is an important - albeit unwritten - condition of their employment). That sounds an awful lot like subsidies to me.