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<p>[quote user="YoHo1975"]</p> <p> <blockquote> <div></div> </blockquote> </p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-size: small;">You keep harping on one subsidy not justifying another, well I'm going to call you out on this. <span style="color: #ff0000;">Why is a subsidy for HSR not reasonable while the subsidy for Highways and Interstates is?</span></span></p> <div style="clear:both;"></div> <p>[/quote]</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;">YoHo1975, you’re killing me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>Just a few posts above you made a concerted effort to set me straight that you were not trying to advance your favorite subsidy by the argument that if somebody else gets a subsidy, then you should get one too.</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;">Specifically, you put it this way as quoted from your post:</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;">“Perhaps the distinction is subtle (I don't think it is), but I very much think there is a distinction between the argument that <o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;">"Subsidies are a valid method for encouraging a socially desirable thing to happen" <o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;">and<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;">"Since X has a subsidy, Y should also have a subsidy."<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;">If you cannot see that distinction, then I'm not sure we will be capable of having a meaningful conversation. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;">I think HSR should have a subsidy, because I think HSR is of greater social value than its current Economic value indicates. <span style="color: #ff0000;">It has nothing to do with whether anything else is subsidized.”</span></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #ff0000;"></span></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #ff0000;"></span></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #ff0000;"></span></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #000000;">*</span></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #000000;">*</span></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #000000;">*</span></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #000000;"></span></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #000000;">I have highlighted in red, your two opposing positions.</span></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"></span></span></p>
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