Re: Re: Neo Confederate economics at its best.... Whoa - no one said anything about raising taxes. Please, let's hear the case for taking cash from the pocket of a person earning 30K a year and giving it to the shareholders of Exxon. But aside from the crass immorality of such wealth transfers, the worst thing is that subsidies SKEW markets and are ANTI-FREE MARKET. Normal supply/demand decisions and consequences do not matter. the government, not the markets, have decided what products make money, which lose, which shareholders earn money, and which don't. Just as bad as a 5 year plan, if fully implemented. Subsidies are needed in rare instances when society has a great benefit from a private transaction BUT the private transaction doesn't make economic sense for the private parties - such is not the case in energy. Such IS the case in public schools.
Re: So you think there will be no fillibuster? So the best defense you can come up with for the Republican Party is "some Democrats do it too?" Thanks for admitting that 99% of elected Republican officials are worthless whores, bought and paid for by special interests.
