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But unfortunately there is a disagreement in our land today about who should be the target of the government's benevolence. Haliburton......or schools? Exxon.....or families?
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OK, please pull up the text of ANY appropriations bill passed in the U.S. Congress and show me where it includes ANY kind of subsidy for HAL or XOM. Please pull up ANY financial report from either company and show me where there was a subsidy payment received from the Federal Government.
Oh wait, you can't?
It is PATENTLY ABSURD for you to suggest, on the one hand, that you appreciate the role that government had in stimulating the economy during the New Deal period, and then to simultaneously turn around and BASH programs designed to stimulate economic growth today.
I suppose if it were up to you, you would eliminate loans to small businesses? How about grants to companies to stimulate investment in alternative energy resources? Do you think oil companies are going to fund that research? Does your bleeding heart want to eliminate agricultural subsidies, too?
Go ahead, quote the Cato institute! Noah, watch this, he's going to quote the Cato institute!