The federal government's corporate welfare programs number over 120. They are so varied and embedded that we actually grow up thinking that the government interferes with the free enterprise system, rather than subsidizing it. Government research and development money funds the drug and pharmaceutical industry. Government research and development funds are given freely to corporations, but they don't announce it in ads the next day. Corporate welfare has never been viewed as debilitating.
Nobody talks about aid to dependent corporations.
Corporate sports are being subsidized by cities. Corporations have perfected socializing their losses while they capitalize on their profits. Their executives looted, speculated and defrauded people of their savings - and then turned to Washington for a bailout. There's a new drug called Taxol to fight ovarian cancer. The formula was then given away to the Bristol-Myers Squibb company.