Why are republicans so anti welfare to the poor and so pro welfare to corporations?

Question

Obviously in a free enterprise system corporations should be able to make it on their own but they love the handout from the government, which benifits the share holders who are usually well off.So if they get welfare why so much anger about a poor person getting a helping hand?

Answer 1

Good point!

Answer 2

It's corporate socialism.

One of the oldest lies of politics is "If we lower the taxes on corporations, they'll expand and create new jobs, improving the economy!" Everyone knows it's a lie, including those who fob it off on the public. The corporations pocket the tax break and wait for a recession to end the way it always does.

The economy is ALWAYS fixed by the same people: consumers, people like you and I. When people start buying, businesses expand and hire new people. That's how the recessions end, so the tax breaks should go to consumers.

Governments don't give you and I a tax break because we aren't donating tens of thousands of dollars to their trough - oops, reelection campaigns - every year. The difference now is, corporations and the wealthy are no longer being given their handouts in small doses hidden from public view, but in huge helpings instead and they're given openly. The elite are no longer trying to hide their graft. Imagine starving people having to watch while a fat and rich person pigs out on an expensive feast and then laughs at the poor. That's how the world is today.

"This is an impressive crowd - the haves and the have-mores. Some people call you the elites; I call you my base."
- Curious George, telling a 'joke' at an $800 a plate Repubiccunt "fund raiser" (2000)

Strangely, Shrub also said about Gore this at the same dinner:
"Maybe if you've been in Washington too long, you lose your ability to count real money."

Considering his lousy management (a whole lifetime of it) Shrub should quit now. EVERYTHING Shrub has attempted has been a failure - the oil business, the Texas Rangers baseball club, as governor of Texas, among many others.

You want an example of what Shrub has made possible? Corporations are required to pay taxes in the country in which they are based. Shrub created a loophole allowing large corporations to "relocate" (sometimes nothing more than a mailbox) to a tax haven country and claim their "operations" are run from there.

That means some corporations pay ZERO tax dollars in the US, despite making all their revenues there (sometimes hundreds of millions of dollars) and reaping all the benefits of being in the US - government grants, legal and copyright protections, etc.

Try having an average wage earner claim to be based out of the Bahamas while living and working in the US. The IRS would laugh while they're arresting you, yet they let multinational corporations get away with it.

Answer 3

That's very biased, many good Republicans are for welfare but also against it's abuse, go look at John McCain's (a republican) voting record. Also well it's a good theory to put money into corporations because they make jobs but unfortunately wages are very low and so people work but still are forced to go on welfare and also sometimes people are just above the amount of money they need to get assistance and those are the ones that suffer the most and become bitter and want the welfare system done away with. Anyway yeah some Democrats are for taking away money from hard working people who can't get assistance but also there are many who fight for it to exist so it can help just as there are many republicans who want the same thing only they want it repaired. It's a shame many people want it done away with when it truelly does help people and they may be republican but they don't hear their representative's message and that is to help solve the abuse of welfare and to help people get off it so that those who need it even more so can recieve help. If you need to blame someone blame the people who cheat the welfare system and make the ones who truelly need it starve.

Answer 4

Because Republicans aren't really conservatives. What they really are is Merchantilist. They use tax dollars to subsidize certain industries and line the pockets of those chosen industrialist. It's no secret and it didn't start this century. It goes all the way back to Lincoln.

Prior to the civil war tariffs on imports hit the South particularly hard which exported Cotton and tobacco and imported goods from Europe. It is estimated that 80% of Federal taxes were paid by the a few Southern states. The revenue was then used to subsidise the construction of Northern Railways, roads and canal systems.

Lincolns own party almost bankrupted several states building boondoogle toll roads and canals, to nowhere. It continues on today with subsidies to Railroads, Airlines and Steel production.

It's hard to imagine what would be worse unless you look at the Democrats. Who call themselves by anyname other than what they are, which is nothing but socialist and communist. If a guy works some overtime to make a few extra bucks they tax him harder and give the money to some nut who refuses to work at all. Nothing you have or earn is yours it all belongs to them to be distributed as they see fit.

The only political party that stands for freedom and free enterprize is the Liberatarian party.

Answer 5

Because corporations provide jobs, services, goods, public works, pay the taxes that keep this country running, and give the well-meaning but naive sufficient leisure to badmouth them. Truth is poverty is a lifestyle and sitting at home and having the government mail you a check is never a good idea. If 10 million mexicans who can't speak english can come here and find a job, the vast majority of your welfare recipients can as well.

Answer 6

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Answer 7

If welfare was a helping hand, there'd be no problem. It is a life-long commitment. Corporations hire people and keep them off welfare. It just makes sense to invest where you will get a return on your investment. The majority of welfare recipients are the kids of welfare recipients. It does not help them, it keeps them down.

Answer 8

They have different views on what creates and sustains a healthy economy. I personally feel that helping the poor is very important, and should override the help corporations get.

Answer 9

They beleive that the poor should be found jobs instead of handouts

And they have proved time and time again that tax cuts to business makes more jobs and brings in more corporate tax money.

They love to give a helping hand, just not the arm, leg and both feet.

Answer 10

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Answer 11

because poor people can't give them quite as much money to get re-elected, nor can they give them all those fancy trips and goodies. ahhh, the joys of lobbyist-run government