Sentences with phrase «destructive taxpayer subsidies»

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Each year the world's taxpayers provide an estimated $ 700 billion of subsidies for environmentally destructive activities, such as fossil fuel burning, overpumping aquifers, clearcutting forests, and overfishing.

Eliminating environmentally destructive subsidies reduces both the burden on taxpayers and the destructive activities themselves.

Through public land leases, infrastructure subsidies, and some very expensive tax breaks, taxpayer money is supporting what could become one of the dirtiest, most destructive chapters in American energy history.