A couple of the fine statistics covered are:

"If you cut out weathfare, you could pay off the national debt in 11 years."

Sample Legislation to Reform Corparate Welfare

Getting Business Off The Public Dole: State and Local Model Laws to Curb Corporate Welfare Abuse

An Act To End Business Welfare Abuse: Proposed State Legislation

Cato Institute (a libertarian think tank)

Archer Daniels Midland: A Case Study In Corporate Welfare

Cato Handbook for Congress: Corporate Welfare

Environmental Working Group Reports on Agriculture Subsidies:



Common Cause's Position on Corporate Welfare Bye-bye corporate tax revenues (1999 CSM article) Boston Globe's Series on Corporate Welfare: July 7, 1996: Helping Companies Grab All They Can Get

July 7, 1996: The $150 Billion `Welfare' Recipients: U.S. Corporations

July 8, 1996: Tax code gives companies a lift

July 9, 1996: Business' clout keeps the government breaks coming Philadelphia Inquirer's Series on Corporate Welfare: June 4, 1995: How Billions in Taxes Failed to Create Jobs

June 5, 1995: The Price of Keeping Labs Busy

June 6, 1995: His Biggest Competitor? The U.S. Government

June 7, 1995: Plans To Save Textile Jobs: A Wash

June 8, 1995: High-Tech House That Clout Built

June 9, 1995: A Successful Program, or Millions Down the Drain?

June 10, 1995: The Perils of Living Grant to Grant The more corporate welfare received, the more layoffs...

This is a list of the 8 corporate welfare recipients that were listed in the first article of the Inquirer series, comparing corporate welfare received to the number of people layed off in that time (1990-1994).

Welfare recieved Employment GM $110,600,000 -104,000 IBM 58,000,000 -100,000 AT&T 35,000,000 -1,077 * # GE 25,400,000 -80,000 Amoco 23,600,000 -8,300 * DuPont 15,200,000 -29,961 Motorola 15,100,000 +9,600 * Citicorp 9,600,000 -15,700 * exceptions to the trend # AT&T layed off 40,000 people shortly after this accounting

see also: Tax Subsidies Reward Corporate Downsizers (Citizens for Tax Justice report)

