Actually he's not. He's just parroting standard Republican mantra. Although it's getting difficult to differentiate the two. Of course we haven't heard much of this in over a hundred years from this side of the aisle. But look to the origins of the Republican party and their views on subsidization of business when 'necessary' for precedent. It was wrong then and it's wrong now. And people call Democrats liberal?
What kills me is so called conservatives arguing in favor of the fed gov taking their tax money and giving it to someone else. That's completely nuts. You can only call someone like that a sucker.
Wipe out the restrictive environmental requirements imposed by the US on only US industry and the market competion would be equal and the so called subsidization that is subject of this thread not likely even a topic of discussion...
As it stands now -we regulate an industry, tie one arm behind its back and expect it to compete with the world while we buy from the cheapest in the world --LOL -- short term we may be shouting whoopee as we save a few bucks now or patting ourselves on the back as we save a tree and other countries decimate forests; however, long term we are devastating our infrastructure, capital assets and capabilities as a nation...