Negative Space: subsidies
- Deadly complications of government bureaucracy
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Government monopolies, whether government agencies or de facto government agencies in the form of government-sponsored enterprises, aren’t rewarded by getting product to the people who need it. They’re rewarded by kissing up the bureaucratic chain.
- Rolling blackouts keep following me around
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Rolling blackouts in San Diego, the Great Southwest Blackout, and now Texas with a week of subfreezing temperatures and dead power.
- Ryan: End oil subsidies?
- Of course we want to end oil subsidies. Maintaining oil subsidies because gas prices might rise is crazy: we pay for those subsidies, too!
- U.S. PIRG supports Ryan budget plan
- U.S. Public Interest Research Groups calls on Democratic Senate, White House to pass end to subsidies, level playing field for “small businesses and companies that aren’t as connected” as companies like Monsanto, Cargill, Solyndra, and GM.
More Information
- Renewable Energy Failed to Keep the Lights on for Texans
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“First, the Texas Legislature must this session eliminate all subsidies and benefits for renewables in Texas… Second, the Legislature must direct the PUC to require that wind and solar operators rather than consumers bear the costs their intermittency and federal subsidies impose on the grid… Third, the Legislature must end the PUC’s constant intervention in the Texas electric market.”
- Yes, Green Energy Failures Helped Cause Texas Blackout Disaster
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“Overconfidence in renewables led us uncomfortably close to total grid failure… the best solution for Texans, and all Americans, would be to eliminate all energy subsidies and allow the free market to drive our energy choices.”
- Ryan’s Plan for Farm Subsidies
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“The agriculture stuff appears in the ‘Ending Corporate Welfare’ section of the plan, most of it on page 36. After outlining the ways that farming America is doing well, Ryan’s plan would cut almost $30 billion and crop insurance subsidies.”
