I don't know about that, the so called 'war on poverty' has been waged for 40 plus years, at a cost of over $40 trillion. What you categorize as 'corporate welfare' is murky in its definition. Heck, some people think that business shouldn't even make a profit, or be incentivized to innovate, how do you think that would work out had that been the over riding principle of this country up to now? Think we'd be where we are today? Think we'd have reached the moon?
Allow me to give a little bit of an anecdotal situation here...When I first started driving trucks, I worked for a company called Schwan's. They are a company most famous for their ice cream, but offer a full line of home delivered gourmet foods, and not cheap either. My best customers were those in the section 8 housing, using food stamps. They ate better than me and my family, and I worked 12 hours a day. So are they knocking it dead, living in the lap of luxury? No. Are they in their own way making out just fine? Yes IMHO.
You just described 'Big Union'.... Does the same apply for them?
Again, I think you are being led somewhat. Catering, or pandering is what politicians do on the trail. When you see 'rich' I see the local business person. When you see 'rich' I see the family business. These people are far more in number than the Corporate CEO.
For a segment of society this is true. The wealthy in this country pay more than 60% of all tax revenue taken in by the Federal Government, that is just a fact. So, why is it so awful to speak the truth? Other than it is being used to demonize those who do...So I guess, for all the blather that we want politicians that are honest, no we don't...We want people with really good ways to spin.
How's that? Let me ask you, if a wealthy person makes $15 million in investment income, and pays $2.25 million in Federal tax on that gain, how did the remaining $12.75 million take from you? What you are saying doesn't make sense, we have the ability in our system not to be relegated to one pie being divided into ever smaller slices so that others can get a bigger slice, no, we have the ability in our system to bake more pies.