Why do republicans like welfare if its for a corporation but not for poor people.?

Question

Ok all of the big corporations are receiving subsidies which is welfare and not true free enterprise. If they can survive own their own so be it. And the republicans I know get so mad if some old guy who has worked practically as a slave all his life gets a little check a month ,ooooohhh my God thats not right they say. well its ok if their dividend gets some subsidies, they don't complain then.

I don't feel like anyone really gave a good answer. To me this country was founded as a true free enterprise system, that means if you have what it takes you succeed, you don't get hand outs, of course some people need it badly because of bad luck or whatever but really no one who can work or no corporation should get hand outs and no it doesn't create jobs, thats just proping something up that can't make it in a true free enterprise system.

Answer 1

This is pretty simple, but its hard for those who "hate" conservatives or Republicans to understand - you seem reasonable and I hope you are not in that category.

If you give an individual a subsidy the historical records shows they will continue to take it and never become productive members of society. We had 3rd and 4th generation welfare recipients before the reforms a few years back. It is getting a lot better but its still bad.

If you give a "company" or corporation a subsidy they use it to employ people, grow and develop. The result of the corporate subsidy is more people supporting themselves and paying taxes back to the government. Its a huge win - not a loss like the subsidy of a person.

Answer 2

So because you are poor and disadvantaged you are removed from the tax rolls. Well then maybe we should not allow the super rich to vote... The top 1 percent, since they can manipulate elections with money. There is no logic to this statement. As there is no logic to socialized medicine. When the poor go to a hospital they can't be turned away so the rich and middle class end up paying it in the form of higher bills... Believe it... someone is going to pay... probably you. Our society is the richest on the planet and yet there are those who can't get healthcare. A national travisty. There are societies on the planet in the scandanavian countries... in canada that function just fine, and you can still go outside the system if you have money. One of the reasons our country rose to the level if did was because of the ability to seek out the pursuit of happiness and having health care is part of the pursuit. Having drugs available to all americans is a good thing not bad..

Answer 3

If you think about it, welfare really isn't a good long term solution for anyone.
Getting an education and either getting a real job with (oh my God...a corporation!) or starting a buisness is the real road to success. Welfare is meant to be a short term help, not a lifetime wasted, holding your hands out.

Answer 4

Right on. They are also the biggest frauds!! How many times has Boeing gotten caught, but they still get the contracts! Welfare for the rich!

Well net, what about subsidies to the rich! All of your right wing rhetoric you can't prove and is pure hogwash!!

Answer 5

Subsidies create new jobs and enhance the economy, socialised medicine or welfare does nothing to enhance the economy and would require a tax increase many fold.

Answer 6

Businesses help our economy and provide jobs. Welfare to the proper people is alright, but a lot of welfare recipients are fakers, lazy bums and some are the product of generations of welfare scammers. Democrats use welfare to get votes, that is why I believe welfare recipients should not be permitted to vote.

Answer 7

No issue is more emblematic of this administration's perverted domestic priorities than its scandalous refusal, in a time of soaring deficits, to stop corporations and wealthy individuals from cheating the public out of billions of dollars a year by either reincorporating offshore or simply hiding their profits in offshore subsidiaries. While our young men and women are ready to lay down their lives on the sands of Iraq, these companies are allowed to avoid paying their fair share by hightailing it to the sands of Bermuda.
This accounting sleight-of-hand is no small matter: It's depriving the U.S. Treasury of around $70 billion a year. Even more galling, these companies are being rewarded for ripping off taxpayers with massive federal contracts. Scandal-tainted Tyco, for instance, pocketed $1 billion in public money in 2001 while evading $400 million in taxes by opening up a P.O. Box in sunny Bermuda.

And it's not like we can't use the money.
In Oregon, dead-broke public schools are being forced to shut down a month early; in Illinois, child care for welfare families is being cut in half; and nationwide, over a million poor Americans are facing the loss of their publicly funded medical benefits. Even the president's signature No Child Left Behind Act has been slashed -- his new budget allocates it $6.2 billion less than was originally called for, transforming it into the "A Few Million Children But Hopefully Not Yours Left Behind Act."
"I now have 120 co-sponsors for my bill," Rep. Neal, author of the Corporate Patriot Enforcement Act, told me, "and I know that I would have at least 300 members supporting it if only we could bring it to the House floor for a vote. But the Republican leadership won't even let it out of committee."

The main roadblock to Neal's bill is House Majority Leader Tom Delay, a politician who never hesitates to drape himself in the flag, but who is now actively protecting companies and tycoons that are selling their countries short in a time of war.

Demanding that DeLay bring Neal's bill to a vote would be a good first step for the anti-tax haven movement. It would take only one phone call from the president, which he's, apparently, unwilling to make. So concerned citizens should do it for him and inundate DeLay's office with phone calls, faxes, and emails. And if that doesn't work, then the same people who filled the streets of cities all across America to protest the war might want to see if they can squeeze into the Majority Leader's office.

Meanwhile, in the Senate, Democrats should attach an anti-corporate tax cheat rider to every single piece of legislation and force Republicans to vote on it ad nauseum until the House leadership relents.

Answer 8

maybe because most republicans are the founders or CEO's or at least some bigshot in one of those "big corporations" you're talking about. most true republicans who can do something in this government are filthy rich, and hate it when money goes into other peoples pockets. keep on doing your research, it might get you somewhere

Answer 9

That was a little loop sided.

Why is giving tax breaks to business a good thing. It helps more people find work.

I know sorry to all libs for the bad word .(work)

Answer 10

THANK YOU!!!!! Finally, someone who IS THINKING FOR THEM SELF!!!! The problem is no one wants to find out something for themselves anymore. I applaud you for putting this question up there. I'm interested in people's answer to this question without calling you names.