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Originally posted by Oncle Boris
DanS, do you see the difference between corporate welfare and using/creating public companies to promote national cultural interests?
What?
In any case, it sounds more like a joint venture in which the government will participate, so I don't see why you need to call it "welfare" - that's my point.
Oh... you are being serious?
What do you consider corporate welfare?
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obviously, anything that benefits US companies.Last edited by pchang; January 16, 2006, 20:03.“It is no use trying to 'see through' first principles. If you see through everything, then everything is transparent. But a wholly transparent world is an invisible world. To 'see through' all things is the same as not to see.”
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They're founding a consortium with the intent of making it profitable. How is that welfare? Can't governments be shareholders anymore?Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui
Oh... you are being serious? What do you consider corporate welfare?
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Pretty much for the entire history of the world.In Soviet Russia, Fake borises YOU.Comment
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I ask to refer to your sig.Originally posted by Serb:Please, remind me, how exactly and when exactly, Russia bullied its neighbors?
Originally posted by Ted Striker:Go Serb !
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As a general rule, I don't think it's a good thing to do. But setting that aside for the moment, I would prefer that the government promote novel R&D rather than "me too" R&D.Originally posted by Oncle Boris
They're founding a consortium with the intent of making it profitable. How is that welfare? Can't governments be shareholders anymore?I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891Comment
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For the intellectually impaired, the point was that governments have always taken commerce very seriously and duly acted upon it with all their strength, whether Carthaginian triremes protecting their merchant fleets, French soldiers protecting African plantations, Russia exerting its influence on neighbors through natural gas, or Britain offering preferential tariffs to Canadian wood in the 19th century.Originally posted by Saras
I ask to refer to your sig.
How hard was that?In Soviet Russia, Fake borises YOU.Comment
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I again refer to your sig, as defense of citizens' commerce or formulation of trade policy hardly makes government a "commercial enterprise". You may have a point with Gazprom and Russia, but these people were born to be exceptions to various rules.Originally posted by Serb:Please, remind me, how exactly and when exactly, Russia bullied its neighbors?
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This would show your ignorance of human politics, given that at the core of human societies lies the notion of property, and the application of a centralized force that acts as moderating factor between individuals involved in economic exchanges.
That a government would invest in a consortium is not news, and given the huge number of public companies that still exist and prosper today, it seems like that a vast majority of countries in the world don't contest the legitimacy of such an act.In Soviet Russia, Fake borises YOU.Comment
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whatever.Originally posted by Serb:Please, remind me, how exactly and when exactly, Russia bullied its neighbors?
Originally posted by Ted Striker:Go Serb !
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