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ErikJ

(6,335 posts)
Mon Mar 17, 2014, 11:39 PM Mar 2014

Hypocrites! Tea Party Silent On 1.2 TRILLION Dollars of Corporate Welfare In US Budget

Corporate welfare is out of control in America. The Tea Party talks constantly about its undying love for the American family, and its fundamental goal of alleviating those families’ financial burdens at tax time. However, their rhetoric is empty if not insulting when one attempts to reconcile their expressed intentions with their political actions.

Congress, and especially the neo-conservatives in the house whom laughingly profess themselves as republicans, vote first and foremost in line with the desires of the top twenty-percent of American earners. These are fortune 500 CEO’s, whom are already at the top of the social-economic ladder. Why is the government giving them taxpayer money they absolutely do not need, which isn’t really theirs to give away, and, furthermore, why haven’t the voters put their foot down?

The answer has several parts: a lack of transparency and accountability in congress, and other government bodies like the Supreme Court, allows the minority in the house to do whatever they want with essentially no fear of retaliation or loss of support from their constituents. Redistricting is a major culprit in the fostering of this autocratic privilege. There are multiple inter-connected failures of our political system allowing corrupt delegates to sneak literal fortunes right out of the taxpayers coffers — and into the bank accounts of the affluent sociopaths paying the charlatans to hide their subsidies in needlessly complicated budget bills.
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Hypocrites! Tea Party Silent On 1.2 TRILLION Dollars of Corporate Welfare In US Budget (Original Post) ErikJ Mar 2014 OP
Kick.... daleanime Mar 2014 #1
Nobody done told them whut ta think... Blue Owl Mar 2014 #2
as are the bulk of democrats including the budgeter in chief nt msongs Mar 2014 #3
Very true. n/t cui bono Mar 2014 #4
If the Democrats can't beat these clowns.. I am moving to New Zealand world wide wally Mar 2014 #5
Close those loopholes, lovemydog Mar 2014 #6
Every time an idiot brings up social welfare, I bring up corporate welfare Rex Mar 2014 #7
They love that shit and it is poor form to cheer such things too much. TheKentuckian Mar 2014 #8

lovemydog

(11,833 posts)
6. Close those loopholes,
Tue Mar 18, 2014, 02:27 AM
Mar 2014

tax churches, and don't tax anyone who earns less than (let's say 50k a year, but I don't care too much about the minimum).

 

Rex

(65,616 posts)
7. Every time an idiot brings up social welfare, I bring up corporate welfare
Tue Mar 18, 2014, 02:31 AM
Mar 2014

they almost ALWAYS look like a deer in the headlights. A few however chuckle and change the subject, because I called their bullshit and they KNOW about corporate welfare all to well!

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