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To: RetiredNow who wrote (4697)	1/30/2009 6:47:50 PM
From: TimF	Respond to of 86355

Its easy to cause one sector to grow, when 1 - Its already growing, and/or 2 - You funnel subsidies to it. You can't effectively subsidize everything, if you funnel subsidies to solar projects, you make solar projects perform better than the rest of the economy both directly, by helping solar projects, and indirectly by imposing the cost of the subsidies on the rest of the economy. (I'm using "subsidies" for tax breaks that I don't think are technically subsidies, since in many ways their effect is almost identical, and because other people on SI, including people on this thread do consider such breaks to be subsidies, and because its easier to say or write "subsidies" rather than having to several times use "narrow targeted tax breaks with the same economic effect as subsidies".)