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End corporate welfare
Source: Cypress Semiconductor
Author: T.J. Rodgers
State: CA, Country: United States

A statement by the Cypress Semiconductor CEO, given to a Senate subcommittee. Includes specific examples and general principles. (06/97)

Farm credit fraud
Source: Ideas on Liberty
Author: James Bovard
Country: United Kingdom
E-mail: fee@free-market.net

Master libertarian investigative journalist James Bovard tells how the supposed "freedom to farm act" has been corrupted in the short time since it was passed, giving cheap credit to failing farmers in an attempt to control prices. (03/01)

Welfare for the well-off: how business subsidies fleece taxpayers
Source: Hoover Institution
Author: Stephen Moore
Country: United States
E-mail: hoover@free-market.net

"Federal subsidies to U.S. businesses now cost American taxpayers nearly $100 billion a year," Moore writes. With that money, Congress could eliminate the capital gains and death taxes, or reduce corporate and person income taxes by 10 percent across the board. Either would do much more for the economy than helping out one company at a time. (05/99)

You're out! Corporate welfare for Major League Baseball
Source: Small Business Survival Committee
Author: Raymond J. Keating
Country: United States
E-mail: rkeat614@aol.com

"I'm all for great new ballparks," writes Keating, "but team owners and other private interests should build these diamonds -- not the taxpayers." Outlines the vast taxpayer expenditures on baseball parks in the last few years, and examines their economic value to the team owners who didn't have to pay for them. (03/30/01)

A Plan to Liquidate Amtrak
Source: Cato Institute
Author: Joseph Vranich, Cornelius Chapman and Edward L. Hudgins
Country: United States

"The reforms currently being discussed by the Amtrak Reform Council are too little, too late. It is in the public interest to use existing bankruptcy laws to liquidate Amtrak." PDF format.

The role of beef in the American diet
Source: ACSH
Author: Kathleen Meister
Country: United States

A review of the literature shows that, contrary to many claims, lean beef properly prepared is a nutritious food and a valuable component of a healthy diet. (full report available as PDF file) (1/03)

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