Showing posts with label Fanjul family. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Fanjul family. Show all posts

Friday, November 20, 2015

Florida's First Family Of Corporate Welfare

The Fanjul brothers, 
the shadowy kings of Florida sugar. 
The latticework of loans and tariffs that make up the U.S. sugar program force Americans to pay about twice as much as the rest of the world for the sugar they eat, and few have benefited more from the industry subsidies 
($2 billion annually) than Pepe Fanjul and his family. here

Saturday, March 7, 2015

Florida's First Family of Corporate Welfare

Most Floridians don't even know who they are.  I wish I didn't.  You probably haven't heard of them. But you are paying them.
TIME magazine has called them the "First Family of Corporate Welfare"
John Ellis Bush (JEB), Rick Scott, and other GOP politicians kowtow to this family like no other.  They were a top donor for W. And they are almost singlehandedly destroying our Everglades. Welcome to Keeping up with the Fanjul family of Palm Beach. here