The people who hold the real wealth in this country are not looking out for your best interest, they are looking to make more money. If we are going to cut out welfare than let's start at the top. Not only do they get tax breaks but also other little goodies.

Corporate welfare describes financial or other form of government assistance to a corporation provided free or at a below-market rate. Unlike social welfare, it is rarely need-based. Much of U.S. corporate-welfare policy is embedded in the tax code, which supports certain corporate actions over others through tax expenditures, deductions and credits. Unlike budget items, tax expenditures are not approved each year but continue until Congress votes to end them.

The largest corporate-welfare payments go to the wealthiest corporations. These corporations are often among the biggest campaign donors to candidates of both major political parties.

Example of corporate welfare.

Research and development is a major cost in many industries, yet much of such costs for new drugs, new weapons systems and nuclear power are paid for by the federal government. For example, Taxol, an anti-cancer drug developed by the National Cancer Institute, was licensed to Bristol-Myers Squibb. While the company contributed virtually nothing to Taxol's testing and development, it now markets it wholesale at 20 times its manufacturing price generating billions in profits including more than $100 million a year in Medicare payments.

Taxpayers, through Pentagon-run arms bazaars, pay the advertising budget of arms manufacturers, then provide foreign aid to customers like Colombia, Israel and Saudi Arabia on condition they buy U.S.-made weapons. Such arms proliferation then is used to justify future government research-and-development expenses for more sophisticated weaponry.

Does welfare to exporters of weapons enhance the common good? Why not insist that corporations pay market rate for what they receive from the government?

The savings-and-loan scandal of the late 1980s amounted to a $500 billion corporate-welfare bailout of failed savings and loans, which had engaged in risky, speculative, even criminal business activities. To encourage overseas investments in high-risk nations, corporations are able to purchase federally-backed insurance at below market rates. Tobacco companies and others seek to cap corporate liability costs related to harmful products, yet they continue to seek government subsidies to export the same products.

Such measures amount to a socialization of risk even as corporate profits stay privatized. If corporations were forced to pay back bailouts, buy insurance at market rates and accept full liability for their products, they might change their risky and destructive practices.

Once again we are looking at the wrong welfare system, you are going for the poorest part of society, because it is easier to blame someone that has no power. In fact focusing on the poor is exactly what they want, you are busy worrying about someone who gets $15 dollars of food stamps, and not even seeing the real problems, the ones that are making billions. Just I stated above, the federal government made the discovery for the new cancer drug, and instead of giving it freely to all in need, the big corporations take it and mark it up and make billions of dollars in profit off sick and dying folks.

I don't see how corporate welfare benefits any of us.