Sticking it to taxpayers
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By Carter Bundy A form of taxpayer abuse is being exposed at the national level even as New Mexico heads in the wrong direction: government subsidies of massive corporations. The GOP, but also some Dems in Washington, have long supported the idea of feathering the nests of multinational corporations at the expense of taxpayers and American workers. The D.C. politicians do it with lower tax rates when American companies send jobs overseas. They do it when they trap us into trade agreements that encourage companies to move overseas so they can pollute the planet, endanger workers and poison our animals with impunity. Most obviously, they use our money to bail out publicly traded companies when their business model fails. Continue Reading