Corporate Welfare

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causes areas such as school lunches, public broadcasting and poor women with children, to be cut while corporated welfare goes untouched. For example, it has been porved by Friends of the Earth and the National Taxpayers Untion Foundation that 34 corporate subsidies were "both wastedful and environmentally destructive." In most of the western United States, corporated welfare leads to dead earth.
The federal government is looking in other areas to cut the budget instead of . It is estimated that the government could save around $500 billion in spending alone over seven years which would cut the the countries deficit in two. The biggest welfare recipient according to studies is Archer Daniels Midland. According to studies these facts have been sustained:
at least 43 percent of ADM's annual profits are from markets that would be virtually nonexistent without government subsidies or protection
every $1 of profits earned by ADM's sale of ethnol costs taxpayers $30
every $1 of ...

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