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To: American Spirit who wrote (368317)3/7/2003 7:10:11 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 769670
 
Subsidizing mature 'sunset' industries is the height of idiocy... unless it's more aimed at rewarding one's political base.

But as a matter of economics, it's destructive of free markets and emerging industries (who are disadvantaged because they can't pull enough political favoritism to attract their 'own' subsidies).