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Visible Hand(outs): Ending corporate welfare as we know it.

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| October 01, 2001 | PONNURU, RAMESH | COPYRIGHT 2001 National Review, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Six years ago, there seemed to be only one point of common ground in Washington. The newly elected Republican Congress was at odds with a Democratic White House on everything from school lunches to Medicare. Newt Gingrich tried to associate the Democrats with Susan Smith, who drowned her children; President Clinton tried to associate the Republicans with Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh. But on one issue, everybody professed agreement: Corporate welfare had to go. Clinton and Gingrich, Ralph Nader and Dick Armey, John Kasich and Robert Reich, the Heritage Foundation and Friends of the Earth all agreed that the federal government should stop giving subsidies to ...

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