I think this would help because of the simple fact that the corporations would not want to pay interest on the loans it would be too much of a hassle to pay the government back. Another reason is because it seems that when they ask for bailouts they always spend the money of parties, executive raises and expensive trash cans. So they would actually have to use the money for their company, instead of themselves. Some evidence of bailouts gone wrong is the instance where the CEO of Merrill Lynch asked for a bailout and then shortly after, used about $1.22 million to refurnish his office [1]. Looking back on history, people like JP Morgan [2]could have taken advantage of bailouts. He was a very rich man, who owned many corporations and would keep buying out others. If he wanted to he could have let his greed for money take over, pour his money into different corporations owned by him and ask for a bailout; all this to get basically free money.
Another thing I would bring up would be the unemployment rate. I think that besides only having a good reason for bailouts/ loans to corporations, they should only be given to companies that if gone down, it would be a bad blow to jobs. If the large employers go down then there will be large strikes and it could get ugly, we should not make the same mistake and let things like the Haymarket affair and the
[1] Merrill Lynch CEO's $1.22 Million Office Suite - Financials * US * News * Story - CNBC.com." Stock Market News, Business News, Financial, Earnings, World Market News and Information - CNBC.com. 13 Feb. 2009
[2] Zinn, Howard. People's History of the
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