Who, for example, would vote for a home ownership cash subsidy program that subsidizes affluent Americans at a more generous level than it does the middle class?
If the government had given his mother the equivalent subsidy in cash or a health-savings account, she would have had no problem finding a dentist to see her kids.
It is in my economic interest that vast gobs of subsidy and taxpayer cash get sprayed all over the industry therefore.
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Governments have shown they can support consumption in specific areas, such as the cash-for-clunkers subsidy in cars or the homebuyers' tax credit.
The show made money with spin-offs, films, books, dolls and foreign rights, bringing much-needed cash into the Public Broadcasting Service whose subsidy is always under threat from Congress.
On the issue of government intervention he faced a tough challenge from a tea-partier in the primaries because his business participated in the cash-for-clunkers car-subsidy scheme (anathema to tea-party conservatives), but this doesn't seem to have hurt him much within the wider Republican base.
Pertamina, the state-owned firm that administers the subsidy, is facing a desperate cash crunch, and has resorted to running down its stocks.
The single largest American subsidy of the Chavez regime is the daily hemorrhaging of cash for Venezuelan oil and fuel services.
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There have been reforms: planning changes have made local objections easier to ignore, and the subsidy scheme was tweaked on April 1st to give extra cash to more expensive technologies, such as offshore wind turbines.
The political clout of farm states in an election year led to this gross subsidy-fest, with lawmakers falling over themselves to dole out cash to farmers.
Clearly, this was a lovely subsidy and so there was a rush, as in Wadebridge, to cash in.
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The government says that under its Subsidy Smart Plan, money from increased prices will be returned to the people through cash payments.
But he points to the sharp slowing of American car sales in September after the cash-for-clunkers programme ended and thinks the same may occur in housing when a subsidy to first-time buyers expires at the end of November.
London's Underground, for example, has seen its operating subsidy yo-yo from one year to the next, according to the amount of cash the government thinks it has to spare.
Its subsidy regime, under which green power stations generate tradable certificates, is unwieldy compared with traditional cash handouts in other countries.
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