Who should get welfare?

There is an eternal argument about welfare. The most common is why pay people to not work; that is applied to poor people. Advocates of this type of welfare argue, "what about corporate welfare"?

It used to be most people weren't aware of corporate welfare, but now they are. Corporate welfare had a LOT to do with the occupy wall st movement. They didn't express that well, but if you dug down corporate welfare was at the heart of the resentment felt by many of them.

There are many types of Corporate welfare, I don't even begin to know them all. I'll provide a partial list here, anyone reading feel free to comment if you think I left anything out.

• Non Profit Status - This isn't even considered corporate welfare but if you think about it it is.
  
  
  • Colleges
    
    You have Universities that have jacked up tuition way beyond the inflation rate year after year after year yet pay no taxes on huge volumes of land they are squatting on.
    
    
  • Churches
    
    
  • Charities
    
    If you can pay six and seven digit salaries to your ceo you can pay your damn taxes too.
    
    
  • This kind of speaks for itself. The catholic church isn't generating a profit? Really?
    
    
• Allowing corporate use of public lands
  
  Typically government allows corporations to use public lands for a cost far less than they would have to pay a public sector land owner. Some examples are:
  
  
  • Logging
    
    
  • Grazing
    
    
  • Mining
    
    
  • Oil and gas
  
  
  There is a LOT of debate on this issue, but what should NOT be up for debate is that if corporations are going to lease PUBLIC land the very LEAST that should be required is they pay market rate for it. Currently they are damaging public resources while profiteering at the taxpayers expense.
  
  
• Bailouts of banks and insurance companies
  
  Taxpayer funded government bailouts of "too big to fail" corporations has angered many people, big corporations get a helping hand up while peoples houses get repossessed in the never ending stagnant, shitty economy.
  
  
• Corporate tax breaks
  
  One law for you, another for them.

I'm with conservatives when they say welfare for poor people needs to be tightly regulated. It should NOT be doling out government money for life, and recipients should not be allowed to use that money to buy luxury items, booze, or drugs. In Massachusetts welfare people get an "EBT" card, which they can cash out at any ATM. This allows them to buy crack, hookers, or anything else they want off the taxpayers dime.

So when it comes to who should get welfare, I don't think corporations should get ANY. They are a BUSINESS and in a REAL capitalist system need to stand or fall on their own.

I wouldn't eliminate welfare for poor people, but it should be put back to the helping hand up it was originally intended to be, and not be an eternal payout to those who won't work.