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[quote user="JSGreen"]<p> WHY should taxpayers SUBSIDIZE the company? All that does is spreads the cost of the operation to a larger body. Why not let the folks who are going to benefit from the coal pay for it all? You have yet to show any overiding social benefit to such a subsidy. </p><p>[/quote]</p><p> </p><p>One can only guess and wonder. My personal suspicion is that it comes from a belief that goverment spending and waste are unavoidable, so a strategy for success is to "get your share" before everybody else does. A somewhat misguided but not at all uncommon perception, I'm afraid. It's why this country's budget mushrooms the way it does.</p><p> </p><p>You see variations of this mindset in the arguments that since truckers are indirectly subsidized through taxpayer funded highway improvements, then freight railroads are "owed" a similar stipend, (infa structure improvements, etc) or that since commercial airlines are subsidized, so too must be Amtrak. etc.<br /> </p>
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