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Corporate parasites: how taxpayers subsidize profits (with Rana Foroohar and David Dayen)
Every company you can think of has benefitted from a public investment. Whether it’s direct handouts through the tax code, government research efforts, or employee reliance on programs like EITC or TANF, taxpayers are subsidizing wildly profitable companies.
David Dayen, the executive editor of The American Prospect, and Financial Times associate editor Rana Foroohar join Nick and Zach to explain how we let corporate parasites get so out of control—and what we can do about it.
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Rana Foroohar is Global Business Columnist and an Associate…
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