Subsidy



A subsidy is a payment made by the government to encourage the development of certain key industries like the Central Pacific Railroad Company. To ensure government aid big businesses supported friendly politicians with gifts of money legal and illegal. Between 1875 and 1885 the Central Pacific Railroad Company budgeted $500,000 for bribes each year. Another way that big business controlled the government per say is that they promised them votes which they got from immigrants that they tricked to get their vote and thus got on the governments good side and could charge a whole lot of money for it because a vote is invaluable to a politicion. One of the men that did this was Boss Tweed who controlled basically everything in New Yourk.

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