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Corporate welfare

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Corporate welfare is a term used by critics to describe acts of governments, or government grants or tax breaks which improve the profitability of corporations at the expense of citizens. Used by analogy with welfare payments to the poor, with the implication that wealthy corporations are underserving of such corporate welfare.