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[quote user="henry6"] Agri-business, Sam...it gets money for not raising crops, for supporting prices.  Some direclty, others, like the Food Stamp program, not so directly...I am sure someone will come up with others....Oh, aircraft manufacaturing gets R&D money from the government to develop aircraft which they often adjust for commercial use.  A lot of other industries have college research often paid for by the government which leads to new or improved products.  No, they don't cover the losses but they make sure there are no losses.  Waterways and airways are administered and operated by government agencies and often don't receive as much in return as it costs to operate...lets rehash this again, again. [/quote] Businesses don't pay taxes and they don't receive subsidies. The taxes, with a few exceptions, are paid by the people who buy the goods and services. By the same token, tax code advantages flow back to them, although not always in perfect correlation. It depends on the elasticity of the demand/price curve. I spent more than 40 years working for Fortune 250 corporations.  More than 30 of those years were in senior management positions. I graduated from Penn State, Columbia, and SMU with degrees in economics, accounting, and finance.  I am widely read in those subjects.  I just finished reading Keynes General Theory for the second time.  I have a reasonably good idea of how business works, especially the banking and electric utility businesses.    I never heard any creditable source claim that every business in the United States is subsidized. Never!  Your views of business are unsupported by any verifiable facts. Moreover, they have nothing to do with Amtrak.
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