Whatever the intention, the subsidy system helps the better-off much more than the poor.
Because of the government subsidy system, US farmers can afford to sell their cotton on the international market at much lower prices.
The student-loan subsidy system is being challenged as it never has before, in the wake of revelations about fraud and abuse in the student loan industry.
They insist that those who lose health-care benefits under Medicare or Medicaid be moved into the subsidy system under ObamaCare, which negates most of the budget savings.
And we've learned this weekend that an independent Scotland would not set its subsidy system independently of its southern neighbour, but in an integrated British Isles market, and perhaps an increasingly integrated European one.
The reason for the delay is that the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) has introduced a new subsidy payment system in England.
The debts have been incurred for a reason or reasons that stem from the design of a bizarre system of subsidy, and decision making that ignores markets.
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Like unemployment checks, retraining and other benefits, which vary wildly depending on factors such as geography, the Cobra subsidy has created a lopsided system of haves and have-nots.
Clearly this whole system is a huge subsidy, but it has to be paid for by someone.
"The UK's support system offers a generous subsidy, but may not do enough to build confidence in the companies making components, providing vessels or delivering support services, " said Robert Gross, the report's lead author and UKERC co-director.
The data hub will be used as the verification system for ObamaCare's complex subsidy formula.
In the U.S. the main federal subsidy currently pays for 30% of the cost for a residential system.
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There ought to be a way to integrate the two subsidy systems so that people are not encouraged to leave the private system as they age.
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Employer-provided health insurance is a regressive subsidy that is the primary reason millions of people have been squeezed out of the health payment system.
Yet, that would not be necessary since simply replacing the tax exclusion with fixed tax credits would greatly expand the number who opted to purchase health insurance even without adding to the total dollar amount of subsidies in the system (does anyone think Bill Gates will drop his health insurance coverage if his subsidy is reduced from 40 percent to, say, 20 or even 10 percent?).
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