The townsfolk can't understand why the Royal Shakespeare Company needs a subsidy.

市民们不明白为什么皇家莎士比亚剧团需要补贴。

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But in that case is a subsidy needed?

但如果是这样的话，还需要补贴吗？

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The currency policy ACTS as a subsidy and an import tax.

汇率政策起到了补贴和进口税的作用。

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"I should say that is rather contradictory." "If you put a lot of subsidy that means the production is not competitive or not cost efficient."

VOA: standard.2010.05.13

"I am very confident that that would leave us in the position where the government is taking risks it does not understand, cannot manage effectively, highly vulnerable to overpaying for those assets, and charges that we are giving a disguised subsidy that is unjustified,".

VOA: standard.2009.03.24

Instead, government would give seniors a subsidy they could use to buy private insurance.

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Also, the tax-deductible nature of company health insurance is a subsidy like any other.

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First, the topic was the elimination of a subsidy, not the addition of a tax.

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