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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices

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To: TimF who wrote (229830)4/19/2005 6:34:50 PM
From: Road Walker  Read Replies (1) of 1573430
 
re: The good reason is that the "free market" just isn't working.
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It isn't producing the result you want.


It isn't producing the results we need; lower consumption.

re: No. Lower taxes than some other country, or even than every other country does not equal a subsidy.

Tell that to the GATT folks.

Taxes are relative, and produce economic results. We have the lowest gasoline taxes, and we consume ~25% of the world's oil, with less than 10% of the world's population.

You can argue semantics, but the fact is we promote the consumption of gas more than any developed country.

John
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