#Subsidies

Once upon a time (the 2000s,) the USPS was not only self-funded requiring NO taxpayer funds to operate, but also made BILLIONS of dollars in Government "profit"which they call surplus.Actually
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Elon Musk confirmado como la segunda peor persona del mundohttps://twitter.com/thehill/status/1331113079413878785 Ya están llegando Venga, va, como sus fans viven en la inopia, un minihilo sobre la segunda peor persona del
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I've always been interested in peoples' and companies' decisions on where to locate. Recently bankrupted Hertz is based in Estero, FL. When I read that, I wondered "is this a
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You may have seen or heard that 80 percent of America's drug supply comes from China.I went looking for the source of that statistic -- and I found that no
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Inherited an economy with bubble. Real estate prices all time high. GDP falling. Very high inflation. On the verge of downgrade to junk. In fragile five So what were the
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Bots, GOPrs, white upper middle class "liberals" & narcissistic jerks who care only about Facebook likes keep saying "Why support Biden" because slogans like "corporate this & that." Its the
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The EU is worried the UK being outside their rules, will have an "advantage" that it will be able to do more to help people and economic growth, and be
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Allow me to elaborate further on this based on some comments and DMs (lil thread)whether or not @tsrandall has an interest in spit-shining this poll's results or if its 100%
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https://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/pressreleases/monetary20200409a.htm CARES Act gave authority for Treasury to capitalize Fed lending programs with up to $454bn (they can also do direct lending as well). These new programs use $195bn of
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Trump's belligerent & dangerous behavior obscured how poorly Biden performed for much of #2020debate. On health care he totally misrepresented his own position-making it sound worse than it is. His
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A few people have suggested I should respond directly to Professor Foster's arguments on #qanda last night rather than just saying I was appalled.I thought the other panelists did an
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1. All right, fine, I'm waiting for a frozen pizza to cook, might as well rant about libertarianism in the meantime. I wanna focus not on the psychology of adherents
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Environmental justice is racial justice.Here’s why: Our history books don’t teach us that the American economy thrived off the backs of stolen people, stolen labor, and stolen land.Over and over
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Over-financialization lead to the dotcom bubble, GFC and the great unwind now. While debt-fueled booms support growth, they disincentivize optimal allocation of resources within a nation’s borders, leave little time
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"Many people do not have access to easy mobility. They may face impairment due to design features as mundane as stairways, lack of public toilets, or inaccessible transport systems. They
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1/ With the medical emergency in Australia being managed well, Governments are now looking at which construction projects to build in order to stimulate the economy. 2/ As pointed out
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