… the corporate welfare…

… the corporate welfare budget is over $65,000,000,000.00 / year in direct subsidies and costs taxpayers somewhere on the order of $300,000,000,000.00 each and every year through the effects of programs such as agricultural price supports. Net tax recipients among the super-rich are clustered in heavily subsidized and cartelized industries such as agribusiness, fuel extraction, electricity generation and trading, some areas of timber, etc. This isn’t even counting entire industries whose entire business model is built around government-granted and government-enforced monopolies (the film industry, the music industry, the pharmaceutical industry, etc.).

Not all of the super-rich are net tax recipients, but not all very low-wage workers or indigents are net tax recipients either. You only asked where they were clustered.

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