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Politics : Mainstream Politics and Economics
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To: koan who wrote (48056)7/8/2013 7:37:51 PM
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Much of what gets done in government on any level doesn't need to get done. A fair amount of it is actively negative.>

Requiring licenses for interior designers FL
Requiring licenses to braid hair most states
Limiting the number of Taxi licenses most cities
Providing the drivers license exam in 26 different languages MA
Providing subsidies to rich film-makers in the delusion that it will create jobs MA and several other states
State lotteries, to prey on the poor and stupid.
Limiting what kind of light bulb can be sold
Promoting tourism. If there are any benefits, they go to relatively wealthy business owners
The Export-Import bank. Welfare for corporations like Boeing
Subsidizing solar panels in dark northern climates
Subsidizing $100K Tesla automobiles for the wealthy who could afford them without the subsidy
Agriculture subsidies, for mostly corporate farms and wealthy farmers.
Blocking cheap sugar imports to prop up an inefficient industry at the expense of all sugar consumers
Mandating the use of celulosic ethanol, when there is no manufacturer or know process for creating it.

should I continue? the list is endless
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