corporate subsidies
Government business aid
Corporate subsidies are financial benefits governments provide to businesses—direct payments, tax breaks, low-interest loans, or regulatory advantages.
Supporters argue they create jobs and attract industry; critics call them corporate welfare that distorts markets and transfers public money to private profit: The automaker received billions in corporate subsidies to build its new plant.
Fossil fuel corporate subsidies dwarf renewable energy funding.
- tax breaksReductions in owed levies
- tax incentivesGovernment breaks encouraging actions
- bailoutsEmergency financial interventions
- too big to failRequiring rescue due to scale
- handoutsItems distributed freely
incentives · loopholes · welfare · giveaways · golden parachute · cronyism · revolving door · lobbying · palm greasing · favors · kickbacks · sweetheart deals · grants · rebates · exemptions · slush fund · special interests · politicians
- subsidiesdirect payments, direct payment, state aid, housing aid, federal aid
- benefitsadvantage, healthcare coverage, dental insurance, benefit, health screening
- public assistancefood stamps, welfare office, public housing, cash aid, disability benefits
corporate subsidiescorporate taxes
Charges on company profits
antitrust enforcement · austerity measures · divestment · nationalization · corporate accountability
corporate subsidiessocial welfare
Government help for citizens
food stamps · unemployment benefits · social safety net · Medicaid · universal basic income
corporate subsidieslaissez-faire economics
Minimal state economic involvement
market competition · level playing field · fair competition · Austrian economics
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