Lol. You are wrong. Any subsidies they get they invest. While the poor invest nothing. Logic is your friend, use it.
And that’s not true at all. Shareholders are the ultimate welfare recipients. They live off the profits of other people’s work. They buy stocks with the highest “return on investment” possible.
Every Republican tax cut has resulted in stagnant wages, and a massive transfer of wealth to the top 10% of the wealthiest households and corporations in the USA.
80% of the nations wealth goes to the top 10%. With 20% of the wealth for the rest. That is not sustainable.
In Norway it’s a 50/50 split. In Canada, it’s 60/40. Both nations have a far more robust social safety net, universal health care, lower costs for post secondary education and a longer life span than the USA.
Instead of raising the minimum wage, the USA subsidized low wages to workers with food stamps and Medicaid, and “earned income credits”.
Given the number of Fortune 500 companies which pay no federal income taxes at all, the costs of these benefit programs are borne by the ever shrinking American middle class.
The share of wealth owned by the 1% of richest people in the United States has reached a new record of 31.7% in Q3 of 2025, the highest since records began in 1989.
www.forbes.com
These numbers are unsustainable in the long term, and are resulting in increased poverty and widening of wages and wealth inequity.