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except corporate subsidies to farmers and fossil fuel producers.
This is something that fucking baffles me.
Why is providing a social safety-net communism, but spunking money on handouts for private companies when they aren't competitive in a free market is economic conservativism?
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There is a Green argument for subsidising small scale farmers to avoid depopulation, as long as the level of subsidy is tied into stewardship of the land, rivers, air and wildlife.
No excuse for subsidising US style feedlots.I guess those with the assets and capital can influence law makers.
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Why is providing a social safety-net communism, but spunking money on handouts for private companies when they aren't competitive in a free market is economic conservativism?
I think it comes from a mindset that corporations create jobs, rather than seeing jobs as emerging from a healthy, broad-based economy that creates demand for goods and services (and corporations actually spending the lowest possible amount on salaries to keep making money).
From that starting point, if you don't keep corporations afloat then "there won't be jobs for people to go back to".
mespilus
ffm
Trump gets blocks of votes from single issue voters;
Gun owners: The NRA continues to promote the right of anyone to own an assault rifle.
Anti-abortionists: this is just not white Catholics, but many Latinx and evangelical (supposed) Christians.
Anti-communists: Any form of Socialism is anathema to them, except corporate subsidies to farmers and fossil fuel producers.