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Showing posts with label corporatism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label corporatism. Show all posts
Where Is The Outrage Over Corporate Welfare?
by David Brunori. I recently read the February 24 Good Jobs First report, “Subsidizing the Corporate One Percent,”
by Philip Mattera, a respected thought leader in our business. It says
that three-quarters of all state economic development subsidies went to
just 965 corporations since the beginning of the study in 1976. The Fortune 500 ... MOREYael Ossowski: How Walt Disney Cashes In On Welfare
Why are taxpayers picking up the tab for Mickey Mouse? Since his first appearance in the 1928 animated short
Steamboat Willy, there has been no greater American
ambassador than Mickey Mouse, the cartoon character who sparked the
launch of the media empire of the Walt Disney Co. Generations of children and adults worldwide have grown ... MORE
Sheldon Richman: Corporatism Is Not The Free Market
The U.S. ceased to be a free market long ago. When a front-running presidential contender tells the country that thanks to Barack Obama, “[w]e are only inches away from ceasing to be a free market economy,” one is left scratching one’s head. How refreshing it is, then, to hear a prominent establishment economist—a Nobel laureate yet ... MORESheldon Richman: Corporatism Vs. The Free Market
Don't blame the "mobility gap" on the free market. “Americans enjoy less economic mobility than their peers in Canada and much of Western Europe.” That’s how The New York Times began a page-one news story yesterday. It is a thoughtful story that offer a variety of explanations—some of them mitigating—for the so-called mobility gap. This subject merits ... MORETim Cavanaugh: I, Panel
Solyndra's story, with apologies to Leon Read. I am a solar panel—not the ordinary flat solar panel familiar to all boys and girls and adults who hope for greener energy sources. I’m actually much more sophisticated and much less useful than those. I’m a cylindrical-tube panel manufactured by Fremont, California-based Solyndra LLC. According to my creators ... MORETaxpayers Cough Up $250K Per Vehicle For Chevy Volt
Department of Energy uses tax dollars to fuel idiocy again. Each Chevy Volt sold thus far may have as much as $250,000 in state and federal dollars in incentives behind it – a total of $3 billion altogether, according to an analysis by James Hohman, assistant director of fiscal policy at the Mackinac Center for Public Policy. Hohman looked at total state and federal ... MORE
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