Kerry says no special favors for corporations

BELOIT, Wis. (AP)

Democrat John Kerry, in a veiled swipe at Vice President Dick Cheney, said Tuesday that he won't dole out special favors to corporations if elected president.

"My vice president of the United States will never meet secretly with polluters who want to rewrite the environmental laws," the presidential nominee told a cheering crowd packed into a hockey arena.

The barb referred to Cheney, who met with industry officials while drafting proposals for new energy laws. Democrats want more information about those meetings and have argued that Cheney, the former head of the Halliburton Co., had allowed the loosening of clean air and water rules at the behest of corporations. ...

... Kerry said he counts $65 billion that goes to corporations "for no really good reason at all." ...

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... to keep corporations in poverty. Those corporations should just pull themselves up by their bootstraps and find a job.

"I am going to bring Corporate America to the table to say: How do we make you more competitive? How do we get out of your way? Research-and-development tax credits? I'd make them permanent and larger. Manufacturing tax credits? That's a smart way to help. I am 100% in favor of companies going abroad to do business."

-- Kerry in Business Week, August 2

At what point does groveling before corporations become "special"?