George Rebane
Most people consider government subsidies to be the transfer of some form of assets – cash/stuff/services that the government owns - from the government to the subsidized entity. Not so the liberal of whatever coloration. In their book the government effectively owns everything, and we the people are allowed to husband and use some things that government owns for a restricted interval that the government deems proper.
Therefore according to their logic, if the government could, say, tax someone or some corporation more than it is doing now, then those stipulated additional taxes not collected are termed by the lefties as just another government subsidy. The same goes for the assessment of fees by the government and its agencies. Since such minds can conceive of no limits to the tribute government can exact in taxes or fees, the amount of such subsidy can be anything that the progressive hand cares to write down.
Given that form of twisted logic, a liberal can claim that you are receiving any given amount of government subsidy if they feel that you should pay that amount as additional tribute, and are not now doing so. The same, of course, goes for liberal claims of corporate subsidies. And here the situation really gets wild and woolly. Given the long history and complexity of collusion between government and industry groups, corporations, and organized labor, the progressive mind sees no end to subsidies that government continues to give to industry.
It all depends on how far back you want to go and which pieces of legislation or regulations you want to include in toting up the package of subsidies that you will argue industry has been getting. The main thing to remember, if one attempts to understand the liberal mind, is that it all belongs first and foremost to the collective or government. With this in mind, their talk of subsidies all makes ‘perfect sense’.
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