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To: Neoliberalnot
If they wanted to eliminate all taxes on all American farmers it would not be as expensive as the DIRECT SUBSIDIES paid out to farmers.

You conflate the two. Keeping your tax money is often called a subsidy by liberals, a “cost” to the City or State - but it is not.

If Springfield wants to give a tax break to people who want to film a movie in Springfield it is not a payout of government funds to a movie studio - it is them declining to collect taxes at as high a rate as the law would otherwise dictate - in order to attract the business that otherwise might go to ‘Shelbyville’.

Farmers are paid direct subsidies - not merely given tax breaks. Shame on you for attempting to conflate the two out of intent to deceive or ignorance.

13 posted on 06/11/2012 7:09:09 AM PDT by allmendream (Tea Party did not send GOP to D.C. to negotiate the terms of our surrender to socialism)
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To: allmendream

You best check your stats. It is not a one time deal. Example for my location: IBM moved here and got tax cuts for 10 years, lease on a monstrous building at $1/year for a decade, free new infrastructure to allow traffic flow, and the list goes on.

Don’t get me wrong: I have no problem with across the board cuts all business, but to single out farmers because they are non-union and small, is not a game of cricket.

For the record: the entertainment industry is the most overpaid, overpraised “industry” on the planet. Nice of you to compare the marketers of deviance and depravation to the suppliers of the cheapest and safest food on the planet.


16 posted on 06/11/2012 7:26:31 AM PDT by Neoliberalnot (Marxism works well only with the uneducated and the unarmed.)
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