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They may already make billions in profits every year, but that isn’t stopping these five industries from lobbying to keep your tax dollars for themselves in the form of $100 billion in federal subsidies in 2011 alone. With returns on investment like that, they’d be stupid not to.

Mansur Gidfar

Dec 10, 2012

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