Although this is from 2004, it still makes damn good reading. How rich bastards like me rip off taxpayers for millions of dollars by John Stossel The article goes on to neatly point out some of the injustices served out against American society to help the wealthy. It could probably be any country, however. Certainly, the UK and Europe where connections can make any problem disappear. (picked it up on www.reddit.com)
Good article mcfox. I'm very much aware of it, but I'm glad to see someone else making posts about an important issue like this. The article you posted just reinforces what I've believed all along. That the US is not in fact a democracy at all. It is more of a plutocracy. When the rich can lobby to the government for tax breaks and other financial favors, that isn't a free country at all.. Yet, so many blind Americans believe we live in a free country.
The reason why this happens is because Americans have been taught bullshit economics in schools and universities for the last hundred years. That way, whenever a team owners wants to implement a special tax to support a new stadium, they come up with a bogus reason. The same story to support price controls, subsidies, tariffs, and all that stuff. Or how about the federal reserve pumping freshly printed money straight to government contractors and bankers giving them an advantaged buying power over other people who have to wait for that money to trickle down. Americans chose to accept this, it is a democracy. Each of us benefits on some level so few people care to even try to do anything about it. Long term, the economy is hurt, sometimes in ways more visible that others.