#apple #grifting #plunder #CorporateWelfare "“A billion dollars is a lot of money for North Carolina’s taxpayers and communities, because that’s $1 billion worth of public services not being funded,” said John Mozena, CEA president." https://www.richmondobserver.com/national-news/item/14575-n-c-s-apple-deal-named-worst-of-2021.html
I think that next year they (whoever ‘they’ are) should announce that they will execute the 50 richest people in the country: not so much because that’d get rid of a few of the buggers, but for the fun of seeing their frantic efforts to be the fifty-first richest.
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Almost a third of the country’s half-million bank tellers rely on some form of public assistance to get by, according to a report due out Wednesday.
Researchers say taxpayers are doling out nearly $900 million a year to supplement the wages of bank tellers, which amounts to a public subsidy for multibillion-dollar banks. The workers collect $105 million in food stamps, $250 million through the earned income tax credit and $534 million by way of Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program, according to the University of California at Berkeley’s Labor Center.
h/t Paul Beard
