英语词汇“corporate welfare bum”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

corporate welfare bum

noun Canadian informal

A business or business executive perceived to be exploiting tax loopholes or benefiting unduly from government subsidies or tax breaks: I’d like to see the corporate welfare bums pay their fair share of taxes...

David Lewis, father of Canada's New Democratic Party, was railing against "corporate welfare bums" - big businesses who failed to pay their share of taxes - in 1972.
The magazines he shaped are benefiting from heavy government subsidies and are, in fact, among the corporate welfare bums he hates so intensely.
Who could have anticipated Government subsidies to worthless corporate welfare bums, amounting to $63 billion dollars.

Origin

1970s: popularized by Canadian politician David Lewis (1909–81) of the New Democratic Party during the 1972 federal election.

单词	corporate welfare bum
释义	corporate welfare bum noun Canadian informal A business or business executive perceived to be exploiting tax loopholes or benefiting unduly from government subsidies or tax breaks: I’d like to see the corporate welfare bums pay their fair share of taxes... David Lewis, father of Canada's New Democratic Party, was railing against "corporate welfare bums" - big businesses who failed to pay their share of taxes - in 1972. The magazines he shaped are benefiting from heavy government subsidies and are, in fact, among the corporate welfare bums he hates so intensely. Who could have anticipated Government subsidies to worthless corporate welfare bums, amounting to $63 billion dollars. Origin 1970s: popularized by Canadian politician David Lewis (1909–81) of the New Democratic Party during the 1972 federal election.
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