If you are an #American with an education and normal intelligence:
Are you proud of having a president who is not smart enough to understand that buying products from someone is not "#subsidizing" them?
#Subsidizing
“Millions of Americans employed at some of the country's largest companies have had to rely on food stamps and Medicaid, with giants like Walmart and McDonald's employing the most workers whose income is subsidized by taxpayers, according to a new study.”
#starvationwages #wages #employment #subsidizing #taxpayers #study
#Subsidizing #Wildfires: Last year, at the last minute and without any public discussion, the #California #Legislature passed AB 205, a large “budget trailer bill” that included a little-noticed provision for a #UtilityTax. Here is how each legislator voted.
#RegulatoryCapture #ValueOfSolar #ValueOfMicrogrids
https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billVotesClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB205
#Free #communitycollege would, of course, be amazing, but #subsidizing all #public #highereducation would be a larger benefit to the country, given that #public #colleges and #universities serve the largest percentage of #students nationwide.
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/wvu-cuts-higher-education/
#subsidizing #fossilfuels and its #consumption: In the new #DTLA there are real good #transit facilities. The buildings are floated on a sea of #concrete pillars, whose per capita #carbon is averaged over the residencies. The garages project out with roof decks for the wealth inequality to celebrate their distinction from the BIPOC #homeless on the street.
#Subsidizing #fossilfuels- #Shoup’s basic conclusion: Dedicating so much space to #parking makes #housing more expensive, #traffic more #congested and #airpollution worse.
About 800 #homeless individuals shelter on #Metrorail on any given night, and on average about 555 people experiencing homelessness exit onto city streets at "end-of-line" stations located throughout Los Angeles County, according to a survey released on Thursday, April 27.
#TaxTheRich
https://www.masstransitmag.com/management/news/53058905/ca-la-metro-survey-about-600-homeless-riders-exit-nightly-when-train-service-ends
#Subsidizing the #unsustainable: bigger #crashes, more construction, #concrete, and #realestate for roads and garages to hold more weight at bigger distances, rare #resources to fight over, #oligarchs from Cheney to Tillerson policing the #fossilfuel era from #StandingRock to #Willows.
#walkablecities #visionzero #20splenty
https://www.curbed.com/2023/04/gm-killed-chevy-bolt-small-ev.html
Who’s Paying #Fox’s $787.5 Million #Settlement With #Dominion? You Are!
If you pay for cable or satellite TV, you’re #subsidizing #FoxNews, whether you watch it or not.
#cutthecord
https://theintercept.com/2023/04/19/fox-news-dominion-settlement/
"On the #LatestEpisode of #TheMaple 's #NorthUntapped #podcast , we spoke to Dru Oja Jay from #TheBreach about why #BillC18 will likely end up #subsidizing the #profits & #debt #repayments of #corporate #media giants like #Postmedia & why the #government should instead focus on providing such #revenues to #nonprofit #news organizations dedicated to #PublicInterest #journalism ."
https://www.readthemaple.com/podcast-bill-c-wont-save-canadian-journalism/
"Every company you can think of has benefitted from a public #investment. Whether it’s direct handouts through the #tax code, government research efforts, or employee reliance on programs like EITC or TANF, taxpayers are #subsidizing wildly profitable companies. David Dayen, the executive editor of The American Prospect, and Financial Times associate editor Rana Foroohar...explain how we let corporate parasites get so out of control—and what we can do about it." https://pitchforkeconomics.com/episode/how-taxpayers-subsidize-corporate-profits-with-rana-foroohar-and-david-dayen/
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