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Republicans have no problem subsidizing industries that they like. What they dislike is competition. Weirdly, the Democrats morphed into a weirdly lightweight
by KirinDave 10y ago
Republicans have no problem subsidizing industries that they like.
What they dislike is competition. Weirdly, the Democrats morphed into a weirdly lightweight party on regulation of markets and the Republicans continue to grow towards something that incrementally becomes a planned economy.
And let's just reiterate: less than a decade of subsidizing renewables kicked it over an economic hump and we've accelerated it to the point where it's actually radically changing first world economies. So anyone saying that subsidies "don't solve problems" is clearly using a different definition of "solve", "problem", and maybe even "doesn't."
- omginternets 10y ago>Republicans continue to grow towards something that incrementally becomes a planned economy. This is worth repeating twice, in case people missed it. The irony would be funny if it weren't so damn catastrophic.
- eli_gottlieb 10y agoThere is no irony. They just wanted the centrally-planned oligarchy to be privately owned.
- omginternets 10y agoMaybe I was unclear: the irony is in the fact that the Republican party loves to appeal to the communist boogyman, all the while vying for a planned economy (albeit at the hands of private actors). This is ironic because much of their apparent hatred for socialism/communism stems from the idea that these lead to planned (i.e. non-free) economies.