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Politics : American Presidential Politics and foreign affairs

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To: TimF who wrote (43581)6/1/2010 7:35:50 AM
From: DuckTapeSunroof  Read Replies (1) of 71588
 
Re: All the subsidies are less than the taxes that the are extracted from the oil industry. The government is receiving the "subsidy" here.

So... an industry does not receive SUBSIDIES if it's a big enough industry to PAY TAXES, and it pays more in taxes then the subsidies it receives??????????????????

Well damn!

It's like MAGIC! Suddenly *no big industry* anywhere receives subsidies! No matter if it receives tax preferences or direct payments worth even BILLIONS!

That's GREAT!!!!!!! (What a relief!)

(And what a bogus attempt to 'define away' the issue of subsidies and tax preferences and special interest loopholes and favors, and all the other attempts to tilt the economic playing field in favor of the selected.... :-(
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