Mike Milke, a senior fellow at the Fraser Institute, writes an editorial for the Calgary Herald about the dangers of corporate welfare. The article is Canada-centric but the problems he describes are universal and universally damaging to free markets:
If business leaders ever wonder why a chunk of the public disdains business, and calls for higher corporate taxes or sector-specific increases (higher royalty rates for energy and mining, higher stumpage fees in forestry), or just increased business taxation in general, here’s a clue: too many companies are addicted to corporate welfare.