Skimming a Wall Street Journal this morning, one piece on the steel industry and pensions of USW retirees mentioned that US Steel, now USX, had as one of it's founders, a Charles Schwab. Grandfather or great-Grandfather of Charles Schwab, the stock brokerage magnate here in S.F?
Charles Schwab, btw, just like Steve Forbes, takes advantage of some
corporate welfare tax break for gentlemen farmers with a few cows and
chickens. Or ducks. Quack, quack.
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<URL: http://www.newsreview.com/issues/chico/2001-12-27/moving.asp >
> ...But if you want to talk corporate welfare, take investment king
> Charles Schwab's duck club in Glenn County. A report last week by the San
> Francisco Chronicle highlighted Schwab's 1,550-acre Casa de Patos (I
> guess that's more exotic-sounding than "house of ducks.")
(It's the same duck club where, a lawsuit set to go to trial in March alleges, Schwab invited the late Chicoan Walton Powell of fly rod fame for sport before allegedly taking over his business and sending him into relative poverty.)
There's some rice grown there, so Schwab, who's worth about $4 billion, last year took in $564,000 in taxpayer money. Good hunting.
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-- Michael Pugliese