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Are government subsidies for corporations a type of socialism?

And could oil companies and corporate agriculture for example survive without it?

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  • ?
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago
    Favorite Answer

    The government should end ALL subsidies, regardless of what labels you want to use.

  • Lee
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    You'll never convince the con's that it's corporate welfare.They think we must have it to keep the playing field level.When it comes to oil companies that doesn't make sense.Have you noticed how oil is beginning to come down? The oil companies and speculators have decided they have push the american people far enough on the price,and have started backing off.Once it comes down to $3.50 per.gallon,it will hold there and we will be happy again until they decide to fill the till again.We are one big sucker.They've got us by the short hairs and there's nothing we can do about it.

  • Anonymous
    4 years ago

    i think of the belief of no longer subsidizing them is greater clever. See in case you return to a decision to place rigidity in a employer with the intention to cap a CEO'S pay it may be categorized as socializing the country. And we seem to hate something which potential socialism. i individually might shop policies in Wall highway that would make Hedge money a tough ingredient to do, and that i might analyze on counterinvesting on businesses to fail. we could desire to constantly take off tax deductions like jet planes and "redesigning a CEO's place of work" etc. yet I do even have self belief that for the time of an extremely aggressive industry, the businesses choose for to get carry of the appropriate guy, for this reason they convey a intense pay and intense severance equipment (it truly is what I hate). it truly is unfair by way of fact maximum of those CEOs basically artwork to create a recommend, lean, funds-making device that finally enable's go of fairly some workers and in many situations strikes businesses to different international locations by way of fee reducing and pass places of work or submit packing packing containers to Trinidad to no longer pay federal taxes. Do i individually blame CEO'S? No, they could desire to decrease expenditures by way of fact share-holders do no longer choose for to work out a flat earnings, yet a considerable earnings. okay, I went rambling on and on, so bottomline..... provide up subsidies.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Don't know that they could be considered socialism, but they are unconstitutional and should be abolished. The same goes for welfare for moochers. I want all subsidies ended for everyone.

    And I also want an end to business taxation. The people in the business pay taxes. The business's themselves are not citizens, and can not vote, therefore they are suffering from 'taxation without representation'. And besides, businesses DO NOT pay taxes, they collect the money they have to pay in taxes from the citizens and forward it to the government. YOU are paying the taxes, they are just a hidden tax (which is the way the government intended it to be)

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  • 1 decade ago

    What subsidies are you talking about? There are none in the US like that, despite the constant lies told by the left wing loons.

  • 1 decade ago

    Government subsidies are simply corruption. Paybacks for large campaign contributions. Follow the money!

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    No, government subsidies for green energy are like socialism.

    Green energy people collect money and produce nothing, like very other welfare recipient.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Oil subsidies are OBVIOUSLY not working.

  • WACO
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    No! It is plutocracy, pure, plain, and simple. Don't you read yet? Yes, they could survive without it, and they could survive without shipping our industries out of the country.

    Source(s): Mad Magazine
  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    It's closer to corporatism.

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