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You won’t love these McSubsidies. Taxpayers will shell out $1.2 billion this year to support workers subjected to McDonald’s miserly wages and benefits.

by Jim Hightower

Let us all now bow before the god of free enterprise, whose awesomeness was revealed in a recent news release announcing that the divine managers of fast-food deity McDonald’s achieved a profit of $1.5 billion in just three months this summer.

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