Sentences with phrase «huge federal subsidies»

The author apparently assumes naively that the huge federal subsidies for wind facilities (which merely shift cost from «wind farm» owners to taxpayers and electric customers and hide them in tax bills and monthly electric bills) are not a part of the true costs.

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A clause in the federal government's subsidy of Starrett City may jeopardize the huge development's affordability if a proposed sale is approved as is, two New York politicians warn.

Most of the United States's cropland is devoted to growing corn and soybeans — not because there's an unbelievable demand to eat corn and soybeans, but because there are federal subsidies to grow them — written into the law by huge agricultural companies who control certain senators.

It's even more egregious in agriculture and food, you know, where almost all of the world's, the country's cropland is now diverted to growing corn and soybeans — not because there's this unbelievable demand to eat corn and soybeans but because there's a federal subsidy for growing them, a subsidy basically written into the law by a few huge corn and soybean consuming companies, Cargill, Archer Daniels Midland, whatever, who control the senators of the corn states, you know, and have enough power to enact [egregious] policy [into] law.

That's huge and is, by far, the biggest currently available federal or state subsidy but it will decrease at the end of 2019.

Even if they never sell enough cars to make an honest profit, there's already been a huge profit to GM in the form of massive federal subsidies and of course, the massive bailout of GM itself back in 2008... Why not throw money at the electric car boondoggle?

We've built a system where commodity farmers simply can not make a living without government payments; subsidies have been internalized into the business model (e.g., agree that federal farm subsidies are huge and mostly misdirected.I MORE

We've built a system where commodity farmers simply can not make a living without government payments; subsidies have been internalized into the business model (e.g., agree that federal farm subsidies are huge and mostly misdirected.I

I agree that federal farm subsidies are huge and mostly misdirected.