Originally Posted By: Hankster
Originally Posted By: stlhead
Deductions and subsidies are anti-capitalism.


Would that include deductions and subsidies for say, solar power? I've read somewhere the gubmint props up solar to the tune of about $775 per megawatt hour. In contrast, those subsidies for other forms of energy like natural gas, coal, and oil get 64 cents of subsidies per unit.

How about tariffs? Are they anti-capitalism? The U.S. International Trade Commission unanimously decided this week that solar panels from China will now be subject to tariffs of about 24 to 36%. It would seem to me if someone wanted to promote sources of alternative energy, they wouldn't make them more expensive for consumers.


Idiot number 2: Tariffs are between countries with unequal and even non-capitalistic versus capitalistic economies and other currencies controlled in other ways. For instance when China flooded our market with cheap tires. If there were global capitalism using the same currency then yes tariffs would be anti-capitalistic. And yes propping up solar power, or any other energy or the real estate/construction market, etc is manipulating prices (supply and demand) and anti-capitalism.

You dolts don't realize you are agreeing that govt does in fact create jobs.
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