The Taxpayers’ Union is slamming this afternoon’s announcement by Science and Innovation Minister Paul Goldsmith of an additional $74.6 million in Budget 2017 for Callaghan Innovation’s corporate welfare “Growth Grants”. “There is nothing scarier than a Government in surplus and a politician's willingness to waste money on corporate welfare," says Taxpayers’ Union Executive Director, Jordan Williams. "Instead of delivering tax relief, it appears the Government’s priority is ‘Goldsmith Grants’ and more Callaghan corporate welfare.” "Rather than hire an army of bureaucrats to pick winners with R&D grants, the Government should scrap its $1.36 billion dollar corporate welfare regime and use…