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To: TimF who wrote (43706)6/9/2010 8:38:39 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 71588
 
That seems completely silly.

Subsidies are subsidies --- deviations from and corruptions to the Free Market.

Dollar for dollar they are paid for by the taxpayers. (And, of course!, also 'paid' with the loss of business by the COMPETITORS who are disadvantaged in the market place by the fact of having to try to compete against the unfair prices that are enabled by the subsidies....)