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	Comments on: National policy regarding fossil fuel subsidies keeps getting distorted by campain contributions	</title>
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		By: Adam Herman		</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[There&#039;s a couple of considerations at work here. First, most oil company subsidies are manufacturing subsidies available to many industries. If Democrats wanted to get rid of these subsidies, that would be fair and they&#039;d get a lot of support from Tea Party members, if not establishment Republicans. But they don&#039;t want to do that. They want to take subsidies that oil companies qualify for, and then specifically exclude them. I don&#039;t see how that can be interpreted as anything other than punitive.  Second, corporate welfare is a big issue and I think we should get rid of it. If Democrats are serious, they should work with some of the true believers in the Tea Party to pass a corporate welfare reform bill that would end the Ex-Im bank, corporate bailouts, agriculture subsidies, and manufacturing subsidies, and any else I forgot about, or failing that, at least limiting subsidies to a very narrow purpose.

And while you&#039;re looking at campaign contributions, you should see what Democrats want to do with the money they save from ending oil subsidies. If they wanted to use it to reduce the huge deficit, that would be nice. But no, they actually want to take that money and give it to green companies. Who are big contributors to Democrats.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>There&#8217;s a couple of considerations at work here. First, most oil company subsidies are manufacturing subsidies available to many industries. If Democrats wanted to get rid of these subsidies, that would be fair and they&#8217;d get a lot of support from Tea Party members, if not establishment Republicans. But they don&#8217;t want to do that. They want to take subsidies that oil companies qualify for, and then specifically exclude them. I don&#8217;t see how that can be interpreted as anything other than punitive.  Second, corporate welfare is a big issue and I think we should get rid of it. If Democrats are serious, they should work with some of the true believers in the Tea Party to pass a corporate welfare reform bill that would end the Ex-Im bank, corporate bailouts, agriculture subsidies, and manufacturing subsidies, and any else I forgot about, or failing that, at least limiting subsidies to a very narrow purpose.</p>
<p>And while you&#8217;re looking at campaign contributions, you should see what Democrats want to do with the money they save from ending oil subsidies. If they wanted to use it to reduce the huge deficit, that would be nice. But no, they actually want to take that money and give it to green companies. Who are big contributors to Democrats.</p>
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