Govt subsidies + tax breaks = record corporate profits = bloated dividend payouts = taxpayer supplied welfare to the Wall Street class.

Corporations want to socialize R&D and losses while privatizing profits.

What free market?

Sometimes its not even remotely fun to be able to say "I told you so."

Socialist always seem to want Socialism for themselves at the expense of someone else, and that someone usually tends to be the working class. No business should get subsidies, and governments should not interfere with the market. Socialism in one form or another is at the root of most of out recent problems.

Charles, you're saying that large corporations go through contortions to avoid paying taxes. You realize that's as startling a revelation as, say, remarking that birds chirp? I mean, yeah, that's what they do. You should expect it.

Those corporate tax breaks pay for our cheap gas, (along with BP's whiny CEO's yacht payments.) Just sayin...

@4 Wow. Your ability to ignore reality completely in order to verify your faith free markets is ten times stronger than the average Southern Evangelical Christian. You should teach classes in twisting reality.

Socialism in a Democracy is people spending their own money on what they want. Government regulation was in place to stop the oil spill, but it was rescinded by advocates of the free market. If you are pro free market, you are pro oil spill.

The invisible hand of the market is invisible because it doesn't exist.

You are engaging in Motivated Reasoning. Look it up. It will help you to get over your free market delusions. Because you really are sick and need help.

"A mine is a hole in the ground owned by a liar."

Now that corporations are equal to people, I want to see every one of them fork out 23% of their profits to pay taxes, like I have to every April 15th.

@10--I think you're forking out 23% of your GROSS not your profits.

@4: Funny, I thought it was the deregulation of just about every industry, allowing corporations to pursue their own profit margin to the exclusion of everything else. Also, what Toasterhedgehog at #8 said.