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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices

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To: Road Walker who wrote (387904)6/2/2008 1:40:38 PM
From: Tenchusatsu  Read Replies (1) of 1575877
 
JF, > So a market where 80% of the participants are governments, and even where it is not in government hands is highly subsidized, is a "free market"?

Depends on who the players are.

You're claiming that American Big Oil gets a lot of subsidies, a theme repeated throughout the Democratic campaign. Yet no mention of the taxes Big Oil shells out to federal, state, and local governments:

taxfoundation.org

About $100 billion as of 2004. Probably a lot higher these days as Big Oil reports record revenues.

Tenchusatsu
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