Foodstamps Are Just As Much Corporate Welfare As They Are Welfare

[Disco Stu]

Foodstamps are as much CORPORATE WELFARE as they are actual welfare

There is massive corporate lobby behind foodstamp benefits

Think everything from Farmers/Ranchers food processesors monsanto even the Trucking Industry

Massive foodstamp use increases demand for foodstuffs

Obviously some out there really need the help but many on foodstamps are milking the system because these lobbyists promte the expansion

Its not just Democrats its also Republicans from agriculural districts

Like I said just as much CORPORATE WELFARE as it is WELFARE bought and paid for by taxpayers and lobbyist influence

[GrassrootsConservative]

Corporate Welfare is Welfare.

That's why it's called Corporate... WELFARE

[Cigar]

Isn't it strange, no one on this forum ever has any problems with giving their Tax Dollars to Exon Mobil

They're not poor abd they make record profits ... each year.

Imagine that.

[patrickt]

Isn't it strange that Cigar never minds giving someone else's money to deadbeats who make a "free will choice" to not work. Me, I object to the federal government giving money to Exxon Mobil, Michael Moore, or General Motors while at the same time raising taxes to drive more business out of the U.S.

[Cigar]

Isn't it strange that Cigar never minds giving someone else's money to deadbeats who make a "free will choice" to not work. Me, I object to the federal government giving money to Exxon Mobil, Michael Moore, or General Motors while at the same time raising taxes to drive more business out of the U.S.

Just give me a name and I'll put an end to it before noon.

[Agravan]

Isn't it strange, no one on this forum ever has any problems with giving their Tax Dollars to Exon Mobil

They're not poor abd they make record profits ... each year.

Imagine that.


How do we give our money to Exxon-Mobil??

[Chris]

Foodstamps are as much CORPORATE WELFARE as they are actual welfare

There is massive corporate lobby behind foodstamp benefits

Think everything from Farmers/Ranchers food processesors monsanto even the Trucking Industry

Massive foodstamp use increases demand for foodstuffs

Obviously some out there really need the help but many on foodstamps are milking the system because these lobbyists promte the expansion

Its not just Democrats its also Republicans from agriculural districts

Like I said just as much CORPORATE WELFARE as it is WELFARE bought and paid for by taxpayers and lobbyist influence

Excellent point. It is bothbcorporate and social welfare.

[Chris]

Isn't it strange, no one on this forum ever has any problems with giving their Tax Dollars to Exon Mobil

They're not poor abd they make record profits ... each year.

Imagine that.


If we go then I'm against it like I am any form of socialism.

[Cigar]

How do we give our money to Exxon-Mobil??

How do we give our money to food-stamps??

[bladimz]

How do we give our money to Exxon-Mobil??Subsidies.

[bladimz]

Corporate welfare is very often ignored, overlooked or just dis-believed, because "patriotic" american citizens don't want to think that our free market isn't really totally "free". That certain large corporations receive tax breaks (welfare) is a reality that most conservatives would rather not discuss. They want to target the low-wage worker or the unemployed or impoverished when they discuss the evils of welfare.

[Cigar]

Corporate Welfare Queens, by James Surowiecki (http://beforeitsnews.com/r2/?url=http://www.newyorker.com/talk/financial/2012/10/08/121008ta_talk_surowiecki):

Mitt Romney ... assails people on Medicaid and Social Security, and those who receive the earned-income tax credit, for being “dependent upon government”... Romney has had strikingly little to say about another prominent group that’s “dependent upon government”: the many American companies whose profits rely, in one form or another, on government assistance. ...



Corporate welfare isn’t necessarily a bad thing. Some of these giveaways arguably do a lot of good. But companies that benefit from these policies are just as dependent on the government as the guy who gets the earned-income tax credit. And, when Romney concentrates his fire on the latter rather than on the former, it makes you wonder if his problem isn’t with government assistance per se, but only with government assistance to poor and working people. Romney may say that he wants small government, but what he’s pushing for is a government that’s small when it comes to helping people and big when it comes to helping business.



Republicans portray their objections to spending on social insurance as part of a more general objection to government involvement in the private sector. They're supposedly the anti-government party despite their willingness to use the heavy hand of government when it suits their purposes (e.g on social issues). But it seems to me their objection is really about who they see as the deserving and the undeserving. They believe that corporations deserve the help they get, for the most part, while the members of 47%, for the most part, do not. To me, that's backwards.

http://beforeitsnews.com/economics-and-politics/2012/10/corporate-welfare-queens-2445086.html
http://feeds.feedburner.com/%7Er/EconomistsView/%7E4/sarkwI1aNgU

[Disco Stu]

Corporate Welfare is Welfare.

That's why it's called Corporate... WELFARE

I understand and i agree WELFARE the same


But with nutritional assistance/ school lunch and outright foodstamps this corporate welfare goes reverse

Food stamp recipents FUNDED BY TAXPAYERS

Down is the supermarket takes foodstamps

Below supermarkets is manufacturers/suppliers who depend on retail sales and provide raw product

Below that is Farmers/Ranchers/Growers artificial inflated demand is HIGHER BUSHELL & CATTLE PRICES

This is welfare that first stolen in taxes is redistributed into foodstamps from there on the money goes up to major corporations

[Disco Stu]

Corporate Welfare is Welfare.

That's why it's called Corporate... WELFARE

I understand and i agree WELFARE the same


But with nutritional assistance/ school lunch and outright foodstamps this corporate welfare goes reverse

Food stamp recipents FUNDED BY TAXPAYERS

Down is the supermarket takes foodstamps

Below supermarkets is manufacturers/suppliers who depend on retail sales and provide raw product

Below that is Farmers/Ranchers/Growers artificial inflated demand is HIGHER BUSHELL & CATTLE PRICES

This is welfare that first stolen in taxes is redistributed into foodstamps from there on the money goes up to major corporations