The collective cry to cut welfare subsidies for the poor is banging loudly on our eardrums. Taxpayers are concerned, and rightly so, about the money we have taken from us each April 15 and handed over to someone else. There are big political points to be gained by righteously and raucously calling for cuts in government spending and slashing taxes.
Big business is a big beneficiary of government pay-outs.
Even the conservative Cato Institute says we would be hard pressed to find a single Fortune 500 company that doesn't receive some sort of federal aid. Problem with cutting subsidies is how loud an ox bellows when he's been gored. Interest groups and industries benefiting from government handouts organize powerful lobbies to protect their booty. The poor typically haven't a very loud voice for protest. The schism between the rich and the poor in America is growing wider and wider.