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MN Senate debate
Klobuchar v. Kennedy, Oct. 2006
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MI Senate debate
Stabenow v. Bouchard, Oct. 2006
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MO Senate debate
Talent v. McCaskill, Oct. 2006
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TN Senate debate
Corker v. Ford, Oct. 2006
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OH Senate debate
DeWine v. Brown, Oct. 2006
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MA Governor
Patrick v. Healey v. Mihos, Sept. 2006
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VA Senate
Allen v. Webb, Sept. 2006
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MA Dem. Governor primary
Patrick v. Reilly v. Gabrieli, Sept. 2006
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PA Senate
Santorum v. Casey, Sept. 2006
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RI GOP Senate primary
Laffey v. Chafee, Aug. 2006
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CT Dem. Senate primary
Lieberman v. Lamont, July. 2006
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MN Senate primaries
Klobuchar v. Bell v. Kennedy v. Cavlan, March. 2006
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Book Reviews |
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Cutting Corporate Welfare, by Ralph Nader
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Click here for 24 full quotes from Ralph Nader in the book Cutting Corporate Welfare.
OR click on an issue category below for a subset. |
Defense
Corporate welfare: taxpayers fund defense industry mergers.
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Environment
Mining companies get free mines for campaign contributions.
Cancel R&D giveaways to auto industry; let them do it.
Highway pork leads to sprawl, air pollution, global warming.
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Free Trade
Restrict IMF power, or abolish it.
End export assistance; it’s corporate welfare.
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Government Reform
Corporate welfare is a function of political corruption.
S&L bailout helped bankers & hurt consumers.
Rules needed for examining & challenging corporate welfare.
Scrutinize even “good” corporate welfare which helps public.
Disallow benefits to companies except for public purposes.
Stadiums & other local tax abatements ignore small business.
Federal regulation of state & local abatements & subsidies.
Bailouts: require payback; practice prevention by regulation.
Legislation to eliminate all corporate welfare.
$1000 bounty for suing for abuse of corporate welfare.
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Health Care
Enforce fair drug prices if sponsored by govt research.
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Labor & Farming
Focus on family farms instead of large agribusiness.
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Tax Reform
Tax code loopholes benefit corporate donors & cost taxpayers.
Sunshine on tax loopholes; sunset on tax breaks.
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Technology
FCC gave away $70B in airwave licenses to large corporations.
Domain name registration needs openness to replace monopoly.
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Welfare & Poverty
Attack corporate welfare kings, not poor welfare queens.
Limit executive compensation to 30-to-1 over lowest pay.
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- Ralph Nader
The above quotations are from Cutting Corporate Welfare, by Ralph Nader.
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