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  • Avg. family pays $6K/ year in subsidies to Big Business

    PAUL BUCHHEIT|Updated Apr 23, 2014

    $6,000. That’s over and above payments to big companies for energy and food and housing and health care and all our tech devices. It’s $6,000 no family would have to pay if we truly lived in a competitive but well-regulated, free-market economy. The $6,000 figure is an average, which means that low-income families are paying less. But it also means that families (households) making over $72,000 are paying more than $6,000 to the corporations. 1. $870 for direct subsidies and grants to companies The Cato Institute est...