corporate welfare
Government business handouts
Corporate welfare refers to government subsidies, tax breaks, bailouts, or other financial assistance given to businesses and corporations.
The term is deliberately pejorative, framing such policies as analogous to public assistance for individuals—implying that corporations receive handouts while preaching free-market principles: The stadium deal was pure corporate welfare.
Critics across the political spectrum use it to attack crony capitalism and favoritism toward large businesses.
- tax breaksReductions in owed levies
- tax holidayTemporary suspension of levies
- sweetheart dealUnusually favorable contract terms
- grantsAwarded funds for purposes
- bailoutsEmergency financial interventions
incentive · handouts · subsidies · exemptions · loopholes · rent-seeking · corruption · industrial policy · funding · crony capitalism · special interests · revolving door · economic policy · concessions · state subsidies · benefits · tax relief · business grants
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- Corporate Powerlobbying, lobbyist, lobbyists, monopoly, oligarchy
- corruptioncorruption, graft, kickbacks, bribery, bribes
- Bailoutsbailout, bank bailout, bank bailouts, rescue package, rescue fund
- business philosophiescapitalism, free market, lean, kaizen, agile
- subsidiesfarm subsidies, subsidy, agricultural subsidies, crop subsidies, energy subsidies
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Government help for citizens
public assistance · social safety net · welfare · food stamps · unemployment benefits
corporate welfarefree market
Commerce without state intervention
laissez-faire · free enterprise · private enterprise · non-interventionism · level playing field
corporate welfarewealth redistribution
Shifting assets across society
progressive taxation · safety net programs · corporate taxation · trust-busting · antitrust enforcement
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