Can the world's biggest corporations act with impunity? When it comes to General Electric, the answer appears to be "yes." Despite GE's outsourcing of its work force, dumping of 1.3 million pounds of cancer-causing PCBs into the Hudson River, designing of nuclear reactors that exploded at Fukushima, parking of $108 billion in profits overseas to evade U.S. taxes, and peddling of subprime mortgages, the giant corporation has been richly rewarded by the U.S. government with billions of dollars in taxpayer-funded handouts and a leading role in designing U.S. public policy.