Test Your Awareness of
Corporate Welfare and Subsidies

This "Test" is more precisely a trivia quiz to see how aware you are of corporate welfare, subsidies and other anti-democracy, anti-market policies -- and some alternatives. You may find a few surprises, too -- many innovative ideas work well without subsidy -- and you will surely have fun. Now get ready! Warm up with this Practice Question.

Practice Question The 1872 Mining Law still limits how much the federal government can charge "prospectors" for claiming public land to just $5 per acre. In 1994, one mining company paid the public treasury some $10,000 for about 1,800 acres containing gold worth up to how much? $10 million $100 million $1 billion $10 billion

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