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To: DuckTapeSunroof who wrote (42330)	3/23/2010 2:48:10 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71588

Re: "I define corporate welfare, largely by intention...." And I IGNORE squishy concepts like 'intent' and define it by the amount of off-market SPENDING. What does "off-market spending" even mean in this context. The navy's shipbuilding program has quite a lot of spending. Most or all of it is for items of which the government is a monopsony buyer. A portion of it is for items in which there is also a monopoly seller. Do you have a real market here, or is this also "corporate welfare". It would seem by your definition it is, but that's a rather unusual result when your trying to define corporate welfare. Corporate welfare are programs designed as or intended to be handouts to corporations.