In his article Congress Confronts Its Contradictions George Monbiot shows how US taxpayers subsidise the rich. If you think it’s not as bad here in Europe you should think again:

European governments are no better. The free market economics they proclaim are a con: they intervene repeatedly on behalf of the rich, while leaving everyone else to fend for themselves. Just as in the United States, the bosses of farm companies, oil drillers, supermarkets and banks capture the funds extracted by government from the pockets of people much poorer than themselves. Taxpayers everywhere should be asking the same question: why the hell should we be supporting them?

Yes – why the fuck are we supporting them?