But corporations and corporate farmers keep their billion dollar subsidies.
No billion dollar subsidies, no little known side provisions designed to protect particular plants with powerful Congressional patrons.
He asks supporters to petition Congress to "Stop the Energy Tax" but makes no mention of killing the billion dollar subsidies to Big Oil that would actually help level the playing field for free market competition in clean energy.
In 2015, the museum registered a loss of 5 million dollars; the city of Basel refused to increase the yearly three million dollar subsidy (Mensch, 2015).
Last November, the City of Portland's Development Commission PDCC) announced plans to provide a 2.4 million dollar subsidy to develop a long time vacant property with billion-dollar California developer Majestic Realty.
Or the urban poor should be allowed to adjust their "personal responsibility" assistance formula, not in order to be eligible for a 600 thousand dollar subsidy (possible for a farm couple), but at least a bit above the current six thousand dollar a year welfare allocation for a family of four.
In 2015 and 2016 alone, local governments committed roughly a quarter of a billion dollars in subsidies to Amazon facilities, according to Good Jobs First, a progressive nonprofit that tracks subsidy awards.
A couple of decades and quite a few billion dollars in subsidies and tax breaks later -- gasoline that contains 10percentt ethanol still pays lower taxes, amounting to a 54-cent subsidy per gallon of ethanol -- it is clear that the fuel's virtues were exaggerated.
The repeal of a few billion dollars in subsidies isn't enough to make more than a small ripple in an approximately $3 trillion-a-year global market.
Railing against "government" health care, Republicans are mute about multi-billion dollar taxpayer subsidies to private insurances, or deals cut to guarantee highest-price drugs.
Some thin-film companies went bankrupt, including Solyndra, which had received half a billion dollars in federal subsidies.
