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To: Road Walker who wrote (283019)	4/4/2006 5:13:37 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573902

SS has never been considered a subsidy, just doesn't fit the definition. No it fits the definition rather well, but it doesn't feel like a subsidy to most people, and when the program was proposed the supporters didn't want it to be considered in any way a subsidy because they didn't want to weaken support for the idea. re: Taking less from you, isn't giving to you. The net flow is still from the company to the government assuming that the company does not get any actual subsidies. Wrong again. You sure can play fast and loose with semantics to support your POV. I wasn't playing fast and loose with semantics. I was applying the definition of the word subsidy. The dictionary definition which I quoted and linked two from two different online dictionaries (and 2 out of 2 BTW, I didn't go looking through dictionaries until I found definitions I liked) A subsidy is a grant or gift. Taxes are money taken by force or threat of force. If someone taking money by force or threat of force decides to allow you to keep more of it they are not giving you a grant or gift. Edit - But since you seem to dislike semantic arguments so much, why make one? Why argue whether this is a subsidy or that is a subsidy if we can't agree on the definition of subsidy. There are plenty of other words that can be used. Tim