Title: How The Fortune 100 Turned $2 Billion in Lobbying Spend Into $400 Billion of Taxpayer Cash
Headings: How The Fortune 100 Turned $2 Billion in Lobbying Spend Into $400 Billion of Taxpayer Cash
How The Fortune 100 Turned $2 Billion in Lobbying Spend Into $400 Billion of Taxpayer Cash
1. A $325 million investment in lobbying returned $338 billion in federal contracts and grants
UnitedHealth Group spokesperson L.D. Platt responded to our request for comment:
2. $3.7 million in lobbying spent on each member of Congress
3. Avoided income taxes – and collected billions of dollars in federal contracts and grants
4. Taxpayer subsidies funded the research and development (R&D) costs of the Fortune 100 companies
5. Corporate welfare programs – big companies go after every dime

Content: Publicly funded projects should reside in the public domain – for the public good. 5. Corporate welfare programs – big companies go after every dime
Boeing was the #1 Fortune 100 recipient of federal grants receiving $770 million plus $70 million in sub-grants. On top of this, Boeing received $81.3 billion in federal contracts. Boeing is also dialed in to the Export-Import Bank of the U.S. government, with $60 billion in taxpayer-backed lending and insurance supporting overseas airplane sales (2007-2014). In a ten-year period ending in 2017, Boeing didn’t even pay income taxes in five of those years. In days past, companies hired lobbyists to keep government out of their businesses. Today, these corporations hire lobbyists to get government into their businesses. They strive to partner with the public-sector and then cheerlead the growth of government. Where is the Republican on Capitol Hill armed with the legislation to kick Daddy Warbucks off the dole?