If we are going down that route:
- The
Cato Institute estimates that the U.S. federal government spends $100 billion a year on corporate welfare, including
payments to 374 individuals on the plush Upper East Side of New York City, and
others who own farms, including Bruce Springsteen, Bon Jovi, and Ted Turner. Wealthy heir Mark Rockefeller received
$342,000 to NOT farm,
- $83 billion in interest rate subsidies to banks
- etc.
- etc.
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