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To: Road Walker who wrote (340236)	6/13/2007 11:02:22 AM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574858

If you cherrypick the post and quote out of context... why don't you post the following sentence? Because the following sentence - "You are so caught up in your ideology that you can't see what is good for your country." Is ad-hominem, and this irrelevant. It isn't true, but even if it was it doesn't support your point. Its about me not about the issue. re: Massive is hardly a strawman. The types of interventions you and many others have proposed would indeed be massive. Massive is a strawman in comparison with our current subsidies in various sectors. No it isn't. Multi thousand dollar subsidies or penalties for the majority of car purchases in the US, would be larger then the total gross subsidies the oil industry receives (much larger then the net), and also much larger then the subsidies received by other industries. In any case even if the current subsidies, where as large as what you propose, that still would not make the new subsidies anything other than massive. It would be a very large dramatic new intervention, its not a small change at the margin.