Overall, on corporate welfare, governments are finding new reasons to separate taxpayers from their wealth. Government interference in the marketplace is growing with green energy rationalizations.
(A version of this column originally appeared in the Financial Post on April 28th, 2017)
Here's a warning for taxpayers already frustrated with corporate welfare directed to the aerospace and automotive sectors: selected energy companies are also increasingly in receipt of taxpayer cash, and the reasons offered up are often environmental in nature.
Some background: When it comes to energy corporate welfare, economists often argueover what is a subsidy.
