Nobody likes to admit out loud "part of my success is due to economic
and social conditions cemented long before I was even born"; we must be
made to believe that Successful Person X was left to die in a
dumpster, then pulled himself up by his own bootstraps and became a
real rags to riches story. Nobody's happy simply to have been given
the keys to the kingdom, they also hafta portray themselves as
"victims." - XMASTIME
Turns out hey guess what, who get's a shitload of charity?
Mega-rich corporations. Of course.
Consider Charles and David Koch. Their company, Koch Industries, has
relied on $88 million worth of government handouts. Yet, as the major
financiers of the anti-government right, the Kochs are still billed as
libertarian free-market activists.
All of these handouts, of course, would be derided if they were going
to poor people. But because they are going to extremely wealthy
politically connected conglomerates, they are typically promoted with
cheery euphemisms like “incentives” or “economic development.” Those
euphemisms persist even though many subsidies do not end up actually
creating jobs.
And oh, let's not forget my old buddy
Curt Schilling!!!!
And not to be forgotten is 38 Studios, the now bankrupt software firm
that received $75 million in Rhode Island taxpayer cash. The company
received the handout at the very moment Rhode Island was pleading
“poverty” to justify cuts to public workers’ retirement benefits.
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