Subsidies
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The Democrats writing the IRA decided that since tax credit subsidies do a good job of promoting renewables and electric vehicles, they should do more. They should promote things like union wages, mining and manufacturing, which have nothing to do with climate.
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Most US ‘Green Energy’ Subsidies – Go to Communist China
by Seton Motley August 24, 2022Almost all of the foreign portions of the fake “domestic” solar industry – happen in Communist China.
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Chinese semiconductor subsidies are allowing them to corner the market at our expense.
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Endless subsides for intermittent electricity are no longer in Mexico’s budget.
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In The Tank (ep190) – Red Scare? Social Media Censorship and Renewable Subsidies
by Donald Kendal May 10, 2019Heartland’s Donald Kendal, and Jim Lakely are joined by Isaac Orr in episode #189 of the In The Tank Podcast. Today’s episode features work from the Center of the American Experiment, the Foundation for Economic Education, The Heartland Institute, and the Institute for Energy Research.
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My recent article arguing that we should cut federal subsidies to Amtrak got some very interesting and useful feedback on social media with at least one reader making the point that the highways and the airways are also very heavily subsidized by governments at all levels.
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Budgets/Taxes
To Pay Or Not To Pay: The Big Business Of College Sports
by Chris Talgo and Emma Kaden October 11, 2018As the leaves start to fall and tailgaters fire up their grills, the eternal question of whether or not college athletes should be paid has returned to the forefront of barroom banter.
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Environment/Energy
Let’s End Welfare Recipient-Fake Energy Wind And Solar – Not Actual Energy Source Coal
by Seton Motley July 5, 2018The ongoing, rolling fact is – “green energy”…is neither green nor energy.
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In The Tank (ep132) – Human Achievement Hour, Subsidies for the Rich, When are We Adults?
by Donald Kendal March 23, 2018John Nothdurft and Donny Kendal present episode #132 of the In The Tank Podcast. Today’s podcast features work from the Competitive Enterprise Institute, the Pacific Research Institute, The Heartland Institute, and the Independence Institute.
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Budgets/Taxes
Left Critical of Trump Steel Tariffs—Does This Mean They’ll Then Scrap the “Tariff” Economy They Helped Create?
by Todd Gabel March 8, 2018What do Democrats plan to do with the tariff economy they themselves helped create?
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There are no free markets in electricity generation, and subsidies are contagious.
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Time for lawmakers to sack sports subsidies.
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Environment/Energy
Yet Another Reason Government Shouldn’t Be Involved In Energy
by Seton Motley November 9, 2017There are lots and LOTS of reasons government shouldn’t choose which energy sources We the People use.