Which corporate subsidy makes you the angriest?

[Deja Q]

Today I found out that McDonalds, a multi-billion global fast/trash food chain, got $500,000 from the US government to peddle Chicken McNuggets(tm) in Turkey of all places.

Dumb. Dumb. Dumb. Even if it is only 1/2 million dollars, the fact that government gives even a penny to a large corporation that can easily stand on its own two feet is insane. Bizarro-world.

(edited: Wrong denomination ("B" used instead of "M")

[stevedeshazer]

1. That's right up there

My angry one is the 100% tax writeoff for up to (I think) $75k for a gas hog for any two-bit corporation.

[david_vincent]

2. I have a huge problem with corporations that don't pay taxes

There is NO way that huge companies should be allowed to use roads, utilities, etc. without contributing toward upkeep, considering that they're contributing toward their degradation. When I hear about huge transnationals that are tax cheats, I see red. Why the hell should I subsidize their private, for-profit enterprise? In fact, why the hell should I pay taxes when they're not? I get so angry about this issue that I almost feel a person would be justified in taking some "taxes" out of a corporate tax cheat's bottom line in some creative way.
Some guy named Johnston has come out with a book on this subject entitled Perfectly Legal, and I intend to buy it ASAP.

[moof]

3. The tax relief they garnered since 1970

there is something like a third of the taxes they use to pay now being paid by the working classes.

Read " America, what went wrong "

[SharonAnn]

4. The sugar "price protection" so that we can't import affordable

sugar and the Cuban elite "gusanos" ruin Florida's environment with their intensive sugar farming because it's profitable and we get our soft drinks and candy made with high fructose corn syrup instead of sugar because ADM, Cargill, and Tate & Lyle pay plenty to the politicians to keep the price of sugar high so they can sell more corn syrup.

This price protection causes many, many problems and the ones listed above are only a start.

[Z-axis]

5. taxes for cocktail talk?

I've always had a reservation about the continuous flow of workers educated at the public expense without the business sector paying a dime for all that education which they turn to profit. Why do my taxes go to someone's degree from a tax-supported university? So I can be entertained at cocktail parties? Let the entities that exploit that education also pay for it. Perhaps workers with advanced degrees should be licensed to the busnesses they work for. No more freeware labor.

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[Deja Q]

7. Really?

I'm in government and I've gotten rudimentary training at best. Also, if I did get any worthwhile training, I'd have to sign a bunch of forms saying I'd have to pay them back. A person who got some nice training got fired, she had to pay them back...

And I don't go to cocktail parties, I happen to work. I work my ass off for management who don't even treat me like a human being. Just a number that's expendable (I'm about to lose my job to outsourcing; something that WILL cost them MUCH MORE in the end - that I can assure you because of my workload. Outsourcing doesn't always make sense and there's ownership and loyalty as well. But this is america, ownership is a skewed concept and corporate america is loyal only to the dollar sign. Everything else is exploitable until made worthless to be discarded. x( )

I'm sure all those workers in the transportation department would love to hear you rant every time you drive on the roads they pave and maintain for you.

And your taxes seem to go the univeristy administration's salary more than they do the classes or building maintenance. I also find it sickening that the price of HIGHER EDUCATION gets so much higher that fewer can pay for it, despite subsidy from the government (I smell typical corporate welfare, don't you?). There's a scandal here and nobody seems to do anything except the nightly news that just says "Tuition going up, have a great night, 'Friends' is next, followed by "Fear Factor", so stay tuned!"

And, by the way, ALL employers should take some more consideration into their employees' well being and education - it makes their employees into more productive employees which in turn gives the CEOs a bigger paycheck. Isn't productivity a good thing? Why should we citizens spend our own money just to make some leech rich? Riddle me that!!! Labor creates all wealth, so laborers shouldn't be treated as vermin. By anybody. As a society, we all should about each other. A "bottom line" society will ultimately leave us at the bottom. Period. And it's happening...

Welcome to DU!

[Z-axis]

8. I'm not sure you got my point

and that's my fault.

I wasn't suggesting that you or other graduates pay for the tax-supported portion of their education (although they do now under the current setup). I was suggesting that the businesses and corportations that now use that education for free, in the form of educated workers, should start paying for it.

Everytime someone goes to work, their company should have to calculate what portion of the person's education was supported with public funds. The company would then have to pay that back to the government as a tax or surcharge (perhaps one dedicated to funding education programs.)

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[JanMichael]

6. US Sugar and ENRON's -6% tax bill.

The Fanguels can kiss my ass and ENRON was PAID to fuck us over.