See corporate welfare bum on Wiktionary
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"ref": "1983 April 29, \"End welfare dithering,\" Montreal Gazette (Canada), p. B-2 (retrieved 9 Nov 2015)",
"text": "[A]nother $8 million went to keep alive Quebecair, a corporate welfare bum if ever there was one."
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"ref": "2011, Cory Doctorow, Context, →ISBN, page 113:",
"text": "Meanwhile: every telecomm company is as big a corporate welfare bum as you could ask for.",
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"ref": "2015 May 11, David Booth, “The Tesla secret Elon Musk doesn’t want you to know”, in Driving, Canada, retrieved 2015-11-09:",
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