Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Politics : American Presidential Politics and foreign affairs -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: DuckTapeSunroof who wrote (46782)	10/29/2010 12:45:39 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71588

Thanks for the link. From reading the text there its clear they where not saying that corporate welfare should not be reduced, and they where not supporting corporate welfare, they where just addressing another issue. But I would include corporate welfare, including agricultural supports, direct subsidies to businesses, subsidies for promotion of an industry that do not go directly to any company in that industry, and to a slightly lesser extent (since they fit the paradigm slightly less perfectly, not because they are any less of a problem, or because they don't help out corporations), highly targeted tax breaks for businesses, tariffs, barriers to competition (from outright monopolies, to corrupt grant processes that feed contracts to cronies of politicians, to regulations put in place for some ostensibly good reason but which really are there as a barrier to competition), as part of a corrupt political culture, and in a number of cases as part of a culture of dependency.