LIST: Billion-Dollar Industries That Don’t Even Need The Tax Dollars You’ve Been Giving Them

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.

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Culture

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