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Breaking 1-06-21: MAGA terrorist attack on Capitol

Discussion in 'BBS Hangout: Debate & Discussion' started by RESINator, Jan 6, 2021.

  1. JuanValdez

    JuanValdez Member

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    Lol: 'give me an example, but any example you give me I will summarily declare doesn't count for unexplained reasons.'
     
  2. raining threes

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    What example are you looking for, companies that made EV's were subsidized so that's picking winners and losers in a way. Wind power was subsidized etc... I guess that's what you were talking about?
     
  3. JuanValdez

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    What if you give a project a big subsidy, private investors invest hundreds of millions of dollars and then you use a federal agency's regulatory authority to declare that the project isn't allowed to operate after it is mostly built and already partly operational? Would that be picking winners and losers?
     
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  4. Buck Turgidson

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    Nah, they're more run-on-sentence type people
     
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  5. JuanValdez

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    Or, what if you make a "strategic partnership" with key power plant makers in which you provide $80 billion in financial assistance and agree to facilitate permitting for new nuclear power plants in exchange for a 20% government interest in the new facilities? Would that be an example of picking winners and losers?
     
  6. Buck Turgidson

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    Or relatedly, for example, the GOP in Texas doing all it can to trash our massive renewable power industry?
     

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