| | | > We are also fast approaching the point we were warned about in regards to once the majority of people figure out they can vote for welfare, we're doomed.<
Lee, I`m afraid that welfare pie your worried about has been all but gobbled up. There are just some crumbs left in the bottom of the pie pan now. Corporate welfare got to the feeding trough long ago. Now corporations feed on Tax cuts.
A 2015 Los Angeles Times investigation estimated that Tesla, SolarCity, and SpaceX had together benefited from “$4.9 billion in government support.”
Subsidy Tracker Top 100 Parent Companies
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Rank Parent Subsidy Value Number of Awards | 1 | Boeing | $15,355,000,792 | 1,494 | | 2 | General Motors | $8,056,517,000 | 779 | | 3 | Intel | $6,004,762,638 | 145 | | 4 | Alcoa | $5,807,038,044 | 180 | | 5 | Foxconn Technology Group (Hon Hai Precision Industry Company) | $4,825,691,168 | 73 | | 6 | Ford Motor | $4,354,657,247 | 591 | | 7 | NRG Energy | $3,910,850,568 | 277 | | 8 | Cheniere Energy | $3,864,202,239 | 24 | | 9 | Sempra Energy | $3,363,986,694 | 44 | | 10 | Amazon.com | $3,284,807,639 | 255 | | 11 | Southern Company | $2,912,535,957 | 109 | | 12 | NextEra Energy | $2,858,193,244 | 62 | | 13 | General Atomics | $2,631,055,464 | 380 | | 14 | Stellantis | $2,601,662,312 | 204 | | 15 | Tesla Inc. | $2,506,116,253 | 115 | | 16 | Summit Power | $2,332,190,078 | 9 | | 17 | General Electric | $2,291,071,186 | 1,932 | | 18 | Iberdrola | $2,287,682,067 | 109 | | 19 | Nike | $2,104,917,829 | 138 | | 20 | Mubadala Investment Company | $2,035,954,929 | 55 | | 21 | Raytheon Technologies | $2,017,934,641 | 1,553 | | 22 | SCS Energy | $1,927,236,683 | 10 | | 23 | Brookfield Asset Management | $1,912,496,975 | 243 | | 24 | Lockheed Martin | $1,875,106,252 | 991 | | 25 | Venture Global LNG | $1,869,575,000 | 2 | | 26 | Sasol | $1,851,232,180 | 68 | | 27 | Cerner | $1,826,761,779 | 36 | | 28 | Nissan | $1,826,106,415 | 88 | | 29 | Royal Dutch Shell | $1,822,610,637 | 130 | | 30 | Berkshire Hathaway | $1,763,401,999 | 903 | | 31 | IBM Corp. | $1,743,417,181 | 509 | | 32 | Cleveland-Cliffs | $1,685,058,431 | 126 | | 33 | JPMorgan Chase | $1,585,106,570 | 1,097 | | 34 | Archer Daniels Midland | $1,465,105,739 | 1,090 | | 35 | Walt Disney | $1,441,913,888 | 205 | | 36 | Energy Transfer | $1,415,862,328 | 72 | | 37 | Northrop Grumman | $1,380,663,203 | 478 | | 38 | Corning | $1,269,418,848 | 349 | | 39 | Duke Energy | $1,246,537,671 | 63 | | 40 | Continental AG | $1,237,291,107 | 92 | | 41 | Battelle | $1,142,226,967 | 36 | | 42 | Jefferies Financial Group | $1,120,662,497 | 27 | | 43 | Abengoa | $1,082,660,583 | 62 | | 44 | Comcast | $1,080,996,130 | 262 | | 45 | Volkswagen | $1,071,478,311 | 77 | | 46 | Exxon Mobil | $1,021,177,998 | 140 | | 47 | ViacomCBS | $1,006,192,669 | 236 | | 48 | Toyota | $999,725,271 | 178 | | 49 | NuScale Power | $970,699,634 | 29 | | 50 | Valero Energy | $954,453,341 | 163 | | 51 | Exelon | $947,277,696 | 88 | | 52 | Alphabet Inc. | $923,824,006 | 55 | | 53 | Pyramid Companies | $904,317,131 | 76 | | 54 | Mazda Toyota Manufacturing, U.S.A., Inc. | $900,000,000 | 1 | | 55 | Air Products & Chemicals | $885,158,490 | 247 | | 56 | Delta Air Lines | $878,128,816 | 23 | | 57 | Cree | $855,527,702 | 152 | | 58 | Bayer | $844,553,003 | 205 | | 59 | Apple Inc. | $824,316,045 | 26 | | 60 | LG | $814,761,975 | 94 | | 61 | CF Industries | $810,715,945 | 59 | | 62 | Microsoft | $807,954,894 | 82 | | 63 | Nucor | $804,565,969 | 138 | | 64 | SunEdison | $803,513,344 | 114 | | 65 | Goldman Sachs | $796,696,599 | 246 | | 66 | OGE Energy | $795,624,588 | 10 | | 67 | Texas Instruments | $795,572,241 | 60 | | 68 | E.ON | $793,913,159 | 32 | | 69 | EDF-Electricite de France | $792,592,976 | 59 | | 70 | SkyWest | $787,978,108 | 384 | | 71 | Facebook | $785,765,803 | 40 | | 72 | Michelin | $769,030,427 | 89 | | 73 | Daimler | $764,360,523 | 150 | | 74 | Triple Five Worldwide | $748,000,000 | 4 | | 75 | AES Corp. | $746,436,073 | 78 | | 76 | EDP-Energias de Portugal | $733,674,868 | 14 | | 77 | Johnson Controls | $729,541,267 | 161 | | 78 | Bank of America | $695,987,310 | 906 | | 79 | AT&T | $692,317,701 | 675 | | 80 | Verizon Communications | $692,256,971 | 366 | | 81 | American Electric Power | $688,123,130 | 76 | | 82 | General Dynamics | $673,438,044 | 353 | | 83 | Sagamore Development | $660,000,000 | 1 | | 84 | Caithness Energy | $655,168,885 | 24 | | 85 | Dominion Energy | $642,781,450 | 75 | | 86 | FedEx | $636,668,287 | 552 | | 87 | Ameren | $618,093,398 | 11 | | 88 | Bedrock Detroit | $618,000,000 | 1 | | 89 | Dow Inc. | $613,491,974 | 593 | | 90 | Mayo Clinic | $590,007,672 | 10 | | 91 | Wells Fargo | $581,052,070 | 474 | | 92 | Siemens | $580,685,167 | 490 | | 93 | Sears | $574,182,077 | 92 | | 94 | Invenergy | $573,139,535 | 21 | | 95 | Honeywell International | $570,030,024 | 716 | | 96 | Dell Technologies | $560,556,970 | 188 | | 97 | Clean Coal Power Operations | $550,000,000 | 1 | | 97 | Sematech | $550,000,000 | 3 | | 98 | Scripps Research Institute | $545,000,000 | 1 | | 99 | Koch Industries |
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