31% of US farm income from direct government payments and subsidies socialism www.agriculture.com/...
Paycheck Protection Program provides loan forgiveness to large business socialism www.washingtonpost.com/…
Shielding businesses from coronavirus liability for failures to provide adequate protection to employees and customers socialism (fascistic socialism?) abc.com/…
Corporate COVID bailout general slush fund socialism (with a side of ignore moral hazard) www.forbes.com/… www.forbes.com/...
Bankster and other ongoing corporate bailout socialism projects.propublica.org/…
And finally, bankruptcy rules applicable to businesses that allow businesses to stiff most creditors, employees, and even shareholders, and often resume business, while rewarding certain owners and management and pushing all those costs off on US citizens (as do most of those programs above) socialism www.bostonglobe.com/…
www.thebankruptcysite.org/…
www.washingtonpost.com/…
Now, I am not necessarily against most of this socialism. There are times this sort of government involvement in and support of corporations and business is necessary. But I think it’s time the American public realizes socialism has been and continues to be a pretty major part of our “capitalistic” economic system for a long time, appears to be a growing part of same (capitalized profits and socialized losses more and more is a thing, and of course “too big to fail”), and is not necessarily a bad thing in appropriate circumstances. And as the one and only Mittens Romney clearly stated, “what’s sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander”, so a little socialism for the people, for the laborers, for us human citizens, like quality affordable health care (I support a single payer system), affordable state college education, and a strengthened social safety net is not the end of our American version of capitalism and in fact can enhance it greatly.