First, Kimberly Strassel in the Wall Street Journal: And so at the heart of the Santorum agenda are policies designed to give special handouts to the working class, simply because they are the working class and even then only to segments of this group.
When corporations get special handouts from the government -- subsidies and tax breaks -- it costs you.
House Freedom Caucus member Tim Huelskamp (R-Kan). said both bills are loaded with special interest handouts and spending increases that will only fuel the anti-establishment wing of the Republican party.
House conservatives have generally rejected that idea, arguing that negotiating a final year-end funding package during the post-election "lame-duck" session will lead to a massive package filled with higher spending and special interests handouts.
You might call these special corporate handouts "corporate welfare," but at least welfare goes to real people in need.
But because it is not loaded down with 987 pages of special interest handouts, it is dismissed by Beltway insiders as a runner-up to K-L.
They want to further the phony notion that even the tiniest raise in the minimum wage is a job killer that must be offset by special interest handouts -- never mind the hundreds of billions of tax breaks business owners have already received while inflation has degraded the value of the minimum wage.
The generic cap and trade model that was in fashion back in the Pelosi years gave away permits to large polluters for free, and split the revenue among dozens of special interest handouts (some of which were well-intentioned, but opaque to cynical voters).
Digging down to specific special-interest handouts yields even more evidence.
And lest we forget special-interest handouts at the federal level, there are countless examples of programs that are long on promises but short on results.
