corporate welfare bum

A corporation or executive who makes money (or is thought to make money) through tax breaks or legal loopholes. Primarily heard in Canada. These corporate welfare bums can afford to pay the taxes, but they just get their accountants to make it so they don't have to.

See also: bum, corporate, welfare

Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

See also:

bums on seats
box score
(as) cheap as chips
cheap as chips
throw money away
heavy money
in large measure
in great measure
in great, large, etc. measure
in full measure

References in periodicals archive

(4) David Lewis, leader of the New Democratic Party, popularized the term "corporate welfare bums" in the 1972 federal election campaign.

Workers' welfare: labour and the welfare state in 20th-century Australia and Canada

词组	corporate welfare bum
释义	corporate welfare bum corporate welfare bum A corporation or executive who makes money (or is thought to make money) through tax breaks or legal loopholes. Primarily heard in Canada. These corporate welfare bums can afford to pay the taxes, but they just get their accountants to make it so they don't have to. See also: bum, corporate, welfare Farlex Dictionary of Idioms. See also: bums on seats box score (as) cheap as chips cheap as chips throw money away heavy money in large measure in great measure in great, large, etc. measure in full measure References in periodicals archive (4) David Lewis, leader of the New Democratic Party, popularized the term "corporate welfare bums" in the 1972 federal election campaign. Workers' welfare: labour and the welfare state in 20th-century Australia and Canada
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