Tag: Corporate Welfare

Taxpayers Should Stop Subsidizing Low Wage Jobs

Filed in National by on October 30, 2013 34 Comments
Taxpayers Should Stop Subsidizing Low Wage Jobs

Bill Maher on Friday went to town on the hypocrisy of small government conservatives fighting efforts to increase minimum wages and to get corporations to pay a fair wage.

Just for the fast food industry alone, American taxpayers pay $7 billion in public assistance programs because fast food workers aren’t paid enough to feed their families:

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Markell Expands Corporate Welfare, Says No To Education

Filed in National by on May 21, 2010 47 Comments

If there is one type of welfare the rich love, it is corporate welfare and Gov. Jack Markell is getting ready to dole some money out.  Specifically Markell is asking for a replenishment of the Strategic Fund — which has virtually been wiped out in bringing Fisker Automotive and PBF Energy to Delaware —, an investment […]

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