From: "Dave Ings" 

Ok, how about grants or subsidies? As in sports stadiums. Very common in
the United States. Drives me nuts, because people in Canada point at that
in the US and say we have to "do likewise" with my Canadian tax
dollars in order to "compete".

In fact in New York (where I currently live) as I type there is a huge
debate about using hundreds of millions of dollars of public money to
build, of all questionable public goods, a bloody sports stadium on the est
side of Manhattan.

I don't like "socialism" any more than apparently you do, but I
think the claim (which I believe you are making), that in the US
inappropriate government subsidies of private enterprise is rare, simply
doesn't hold up to scrutiny. It may be less in the US than elsewhere, it
may be delivered by different mechanisms than elsewhere, but I believe it
is still all too common.
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Regards,
Dave Ings,
Toronto, Canada

"Gary Britt"  wrote in message
news:4117f39f{at}w3.nls.net...
> I'm not saying that couldn't happen John.  What I'm saying is that in
> general we don't loan companies money and the loans to the airline
industry
> immediately after 9/11 were defense expenditures not a socialist
government
> seeking to prop up an inefficient company.

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