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Alabama's Priorities Clear: Medicaid, No. Boeing Welfare Payments, Yes!
News Image: Alabama Governor Robert J. Bentley is promising hundreds of millions in tax incentives (read: bribes) to Boeing so the behemoth aerospace corporation would move into the state. The record...
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Republicans Throw Hissy Fit Over Iran Sanctions, Scuttle Bill to Help Veterans
News Image: Republicans in the Senate refused to pass a veterans bill that would have provided and extended services to the injured and their families. The reason? The bill – which at a paltry $21...
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REPORT: Of Discouraging $110B in Corporate Welfare, $88M Goes to Koch Industries
News Image: A new report provides detail on our ‘corporate welfare state’ and the way large corporations benefit from programs being sold to the public as beneficial to American citizens. In total,...
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$4.5M in Corporate Welfare Payments Still Not Working at Huntsville Airport
News Image: Nearly every year, the Hunstville/Decature International Airport tops the list of most expensive airports in the country. And nearly every year, Alabama throws more and more money at the...
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GOP Math: Alabama Gives Chinese Company $190 Million to Build $100 Million Plant
News Image: No doubt Decatur, Alabama, tubing manufacturer, Wolverine, is thrilled that the state is funding a competitor. Not just any competitor: Chinese-owned "Golden Dragon Copper" has opened in...
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AL Gov on Looting Education Budget for Corporate Welfare: 'Eat What You Kill'
News Image: It may read like satire — but unfortunately, it is not. Alabama Governor Robert Bentley is calling for a special Legislative session to divert money from the state's Education Trust Fund to...
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Lobbyists Swarm DC in Fight to Keep Tax Loopholes Open for Giant Corporations
News Image: Minnesota-based Medtronic, Inc. has hired a lobbying firm headed by former U.S. Senators Trent Lott and John Breaux in an attempt to defeat legislation that would undermine the company’s...
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50 Years Later, Ronald Reagan's 'Time for Choosing' Speech Reads Like a Tea...
News Image: Fifty years ago today, on October 27, 1964, Ronald Reagan delivered his (in)famous "A Time for Choosing Speech" in support of Republican Presidential nominee Barry Goldwater over President...
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It Will Cost Pennsylvania Billions of Dollars to Cap Its Uncounted, Abandoned...
News Image: If you want to see the future of the shale industry — what today's drilling rush will leave behind — come to Bradford, Pennsylvania. A small city, it was home to one of America's first...
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Lord Ridley's Euro Subsidy Slammed as Socialism for the Rich
News Image: Free market zealot Matt Ridley may well dismiss the European Union’s Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) as a powerful “economic quirk” which has retarded Britain’s rural economy and kept...
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