Millions Took Phone Subsidies Intended for Low-Income Individuals
Without proving they qualified
Without proving they qualified
Not because they don't need them, but because they're taking them away from film and television companies (who also don't need them).
Ed Markey (D-MA) and Stephen Lynch (D-MA)
Selective, complicated exceptions to the law do not reduce the burden of government
Hot air coming from wind industry representatives
Because it could never make a go of it on its own, right?
"Public" notices of meetings are posted by their own elevators
Because Warner Bros. could never foot the bill itself, right?
Export-Important Bank funneled more than $12 billion in 2012 to back company's sales
Hopefully they will not be dropped on Japan
A journalist proposes taxing the money people set aside for savings and then forcing them to save money via the government instead
Politicians eager to see their cities destroyed offer giveaways to filmmakers.
The governor got to rub elbows with stars
The slide 'n' splash is the key to prosperity, for sure
But taxpayers will pick up the tab, whatever its size
Lawsuit also names for state economic development head
Public subsidies for stadiums are win-lose propositions: The teams win, and the taxpayers lose.
Broken windows as far as the eye can see
Why ever would a banjo-strummer go there on his or her own dime?
Longhair labor disputes are the inevitable product of an impossible business model.
Rhode Island Police still investigating possible violations of state law
After collapse of video game company, seeks $3.5 million for 20-room house
But blamed failure on Chinese competition
While US complains about China's subsidies, this is going on
America says they've stopped them. Europe says they haven't
Taxpayers are asked to indulge the already well-off
The subsidized program threatens to kill local companies
Our pork tastes so much better than their pork
Except for, of course, the many things the right wants to subsidize, like defense contracts
Glitches and resentment limit the program's reach
China's subsidies bad. America's subsidies good! Go America!
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