Changes in US Wealth Distribution 1989-2019

[Toddsterpatriot]

Is there any good reason why taxpayers should subsidize private for-profit corporations for their propaganda?

You think those commercials cost taxpayers money? LOL!

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

The newspaper, magazine, online, TV, PR and printing companies pay their employees, who pay taxes. Those corporations also pay taxes. Sounds like a wash.

 

[georgephillip]

You think those commercials cost taxpayers money? LOL!

"The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Market Promotion Program (MAP) spends some $100 million per year underwriting the cost of advertising American products abroad.

"In 1995 MAP gave $500,000 to Tyson Foods; $526,000 to the Pillsbury dough boy; $308,000 to Ocean Spray Cranberries; $2 million to the California Prune Board; $1 million to the Kentucky Distillers' Association (yes, Congress subsidizes the production and sale of booze); $14,000 to High Mountain Jerky (they make the famous Beef Jerky), and $281,000 to the Campbell Soup Company. Mmm, mmm, good!

"In the past MAP has even provided subsidies for foreign sales of U.S. tobacco products--thus contributing to the export of cancer and heart disease."

Welfare for the Well-Off: How Business Subsidies Fleece Taxpayers

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

"The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Market Promotion Program (MAP) spends some $100 million per year underwriting the cost of advertising American products abroad.

"In 1995 MAP gave $500,000 to Tyson Foods; $526,000 to the Pillsbury dough boy; $308,000 to Ocean Spray Cranberries; $2 million to the California Prune Board; $1 million to the Kentucky Distillers' Association (yes, Congress subsidizes the production and sale of booze); $14,000 to High Mountain Jerky (they make the famous Beef Jerky), and $281,000 to the Campbell Soup Company. Mmm, mmm, good!

"In the past MAP has even provided subsidies for foreign sales of U.S. tobacco products--thus contributing to the export of cancer and heart disease."

Welfare for the Well-Off: How Business Subsidies Fleece Taxpayers

"The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Market Promotion Program (MAP) spends some $100 million per year underwriting the cost of advertising American products abroad.

You were whining about business deductions, what happened?