How Corporations Became so Powerful in 6 Minutes

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Author: Glock-N-Load

Simply a concerned, freedom loving American.

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flash
flash
January 24, 2021 7:19 am

Whatever corporations give in campaign contributions, they get back a hundred fold in taxpayer funded subsidies.

Parent Company Name: Exxon Mobil
Ownership Structure: publicly traded (ticker symbol XOM)

Subsidy Summary Subsidy Value Number of Awards
State/Local $1,015,682,466 115
TOTAL $1,015,682,466 115

Federal loans, loan guarantees and bailout assistance (not including repayments) $3,853,988,000 13
TOTAL $3,853,988,000 13

https://subsidytracker.goodjobsfirst.org/prog.php?parent=exxon-mobil

Ghost
Ghost
  flash
January 24, 2021 8:26 am

Didya get a look at the new SecDefense’s Raytheon connection?

flash
flash
  Ghost
January 24, 2021 1:24 pm

Yep, hard work and sacrifice…that’s what it takes to make it in muh free market.

Parent Company Name: Raytheon Technologies
Ownership Structure: publicly traded (ticker symbol RTX)

Subsidy Summary Subsidy Value Number of Awards
State/Local $781,785,385 336
Federal (grants and allocated tax credits) $1,038,231,246 930
TOTAL $1,820,016,631 1,266

Loan / Bailout Summary Total Face Value Number of Awards
State/Local loans, bond financing and venture capital $98,700,000 5
Federal loans, loan guarantees and bailout assistance (not including repayments) $1,423,379 1
TOTAL $100,123,379

https://subsidytracker.goodjobsfirst.org/prog.php?parent=raytheon-technologies

TN Patriot
TN Patriot
  Ghost
January 24, 2021 6:01 pm

He is also on Nucor Steel’s board and they provide much of the steel used for armor plate. It is quite an incestuous bunch that run corporations/government.

ED II
ED II
  flash
January 24, 2021 1:28 pm

“Whatever corporations give in campaign contributions, they get back a hundred fold in taxpayer funded subsidies.”

So politicians are selling themselves cheap? Like cheap crack whores instead of sweet assed Hollywood call girls? Seems so.

TN Patriot
TN Patriot
  ED II
January 24, 2021 6:02 pm

They are more expensive than the hollywood call girls, but as active as a crack whore.

TN Patriot
TN Patriot
  flash
January 24, 2021 5:49 pm

Several years ago, GE had a tax (avoidance) division that was the most profitable in all of the corporation The budget was around $1/2 Billion and it saved more than $3 Billion in taxes. Lobbying was part of this division.

gatsby1219
gatsby1219
January 24, 2021 8:48 am

And now Corps. can violate the 1st A….

brian
brian
  gatsby1219
January 24, 2021 11:33 am

Well the government can’t suppress the 1st but private companies can. After all they are private companies and set their own policies to ‘protect’ the public from racists, istaphobic phobiasts and white supremist conservatives. dincha know…