What is worse personal welfare or corporate welfare?

Answer 1

Corporate.
Personal welfare does less to disrupt markets in my opinion. It helps those who often cannot fend for themselves and does not pick winners and losers in the economy.

Answer 2

Both have their pros and cons. Personal welfare was designed to be, and should be TEMPORARY help for someone who then uses it to better themselves and become self-sufficient. Sadly, there are some who are happy with their $600 a month, $8 rent, and free groceries, that they have no motivation to better themselves as long as the cable doesn't get cut off.

Exceptions, of course, should be made for children, the disabled and elderly. But if you are 18-65 and able bodied, you should be able to get a job and support yourself. Corporate welfare, while deemed "evil" by most, is actually more beneficial to everyone. The Work Opportunity Tax Credit gives employers tax incentives to hire welfare clients and those on other forms of federal assistance. This is a win/win for the employer and employee. Plus, bail-outs and incentives, if used PROPERLY by the company, end up allowing them to hire more employees, increase wages, and contribute more to the economy. This is why I'm a huge fan of both business incentives, and lower personal income tax, so in return that money will be used to stimulate the economy, rather than be bogged down in a beuracracy that gives us bridges to nowhere and "Lawrence Welk Birth Home Museum" pork projects, picked up by the taxpayer.

Who would YOU rather have handling your finances? Bill Gates, or Bill Clinton?

Answer 3

Corporate is definitly worse. First corporate welfare goes to multinational companies, that money ends up off shore, second they pay no taxes to help the country out. Atleast when you give welfare to poor people here they spend it right here at home which stimulates the economy.

Answer 4

good question, but i'd say corporate welfare.


only because a corporation HAD the proper funding at the beginning of its existance and only now needs corporate welfare because of mismanagement.

personal welfare is often due to circumstances people were not able to control themselves. for example, if someone is born into a crack addicted family where going to school and studying hard is never reinforced, can you blame that person for not growing up to become a doctor? his/her life opportunities were stacked against him/her from the beginning, so they may need some govt assistance to fix their lives.

a corporation only needs welfare and has only itself (its managers and CEOs) to blame because of mismanagement.

Answer 5

Equally bad. Under the eyes of the law a corporation is a person. But at least a corporation can die without causing physical harm. But economically, they have equal weight.

Answer 6

corporate welfare, talk about a contradiction. Corporation are like someone who helps you wash your car for free and never lets you forget it. You owe them forever!

Answer 7

Corporate by far.

Answer 8

that's funny the lesser of two evils, both are eqally as bad, people need to be responsible for own lifes

Answer 9

there is no difference.