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AtheistCrusader

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2. The point of a subsidy is to encourage something that might not have an obvious

Reply to Gidney N Cloyd (Original post)

Mon Jan 6, 2014, 03:43 PM

Jan 2014

up front positive cost-benefit, but has other social knock-on effects that are highly desirable.

Keep the wind subsidy. Kill something else, like Coal or Nuclear. I'd like to see the pretzel logic the author of that piece would come up with to defend those subsidies.

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Chicago Tribue Editorial: "Let the Wind Subsidy Blow Away" [View all] Gidney N Cloyd Jan 2014 OP

And the nuclear industry will continue to be subsidised n/t intaglio Jan 2014 #1

The point of a subsidy is to encourage something that might not have an obvious AtheistCrusader Jan 2014 #2