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• EU removes dairy subsidies

  
  Homepaddock — Authority: 551
  Break out a celebratory bottle of milk, the European Union has removed subsidies on dairy products. Trade Minister Tim Groser said : “International dairy prices have shown a marked improvement across the board in the last three months, reflecting a more positive outlook in international dairy markets. “In ...
  21 hours ago

• Taxes, Subsidies, and Distortions

  
  Cafe Hayek — Authority: 674
  In the current New Yorker , James Surowiecki is properly critical of the economic distortions introduced by taxing debt-financed income much more lightly than taxing equity-financed income . But his policy conclusion is a non sequitur : Given the weak state of the economy and of housing prices, a wholesale ...
  22 hours ago

• Nokia N900 drops to $480 on Amazon

  
  Family Learning Center — Authority: 162
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  23 hours ago

• Pro-Boeing Legislators Want Air Force To Penalize EADS

  
  Defense Procurement News — Authority: 441
  Several Representatives and Senators from states where Boeing (BA) would do much of the work if they won the KC-X tanker contract are pushing the Air Force to either exclude outright EADS (EADS.P) or place a cost factor on their bid . This is all due to the World Trade Organization (WTO) draft ruling that the ...
  1 day ago

• Republicans Want the Status Quo for Student Loans

  
  http://www.ourfuture.org/blog — Authority: 659
  Representative John Kline (R-MN) and Senator Mike Enzi (R-WY) introduced legislation this week that keeps our broken student loan system in status quo, with corrupt private lenders and federal bank subsidies worth billions. This is a move directly against the Democrat-backed Student Aid and Fiscal Responsibility ...
  1 day ago

• Can the Redlining of U.S. Workers Be Stopped?

  
  Dirt Diggers Digest — Authority: 107
  We’re meant to believe that corporations make their investment decisions based on carefully considered financial and competitive considerations. Yet a recent announcement by a Chinese manufacturer of turbines for wind energy shows how political pressure can quickly change business priorities. In late October the ...
  1 day ago

• Despite Subsidies, Class Sizes Rise In California Schools

  
  Truthdig: Drilling Beneath the Headlines — Authority: 729
  By Louis Freedberg and Hugo Cabrera, California Watch Most of California’s largest school districts are increasing class sizes in kindergarten through third grade, eroding the most expensive education reform in the state’s history. READ THE WHOLE ITEM Related Entries November 18, 2009 GOP ...
  1 day ago

• Agribusiness, Food, Vegetarianism----and Taxes

  
  Angry Bear — Authority: 618
  [cross-posted on ataxingmatter --see posting there for additional comments] As some of you may know, I am one of the many people who eat a vegetarian diet. I dont eat cows, pigs, fish, whales, sharks, chicken, turkey, sheep, wild game, tame game... As I sometimes say when people ask me about my diet, I eat ...
  1 day ago

• Sustainable Menlo Park Speaker Series

  
  California High Speed Rail Blog — Authority: 567
  By Bianca On November 18, the non-profit group Sustainable Menlo Park hosted a presentation on the latest developments on high speed rail. Sustainable Menlo Park is officially "neutral" on the subject of High Speed Rail, but decided to host the event due to local interest in the subject. On the podium were Bruce ...
  1 day ago

• Agribusiness, Food, Vegetarianism-----and Taxes

  
  ataxingmatter — Authority: 92
  As some of you may know, I am one of the many people who eat a vegetarian diet.  I dont eat cows, pigs, fish, whales, sharks, chicken, turkey, sheep, wild game, tame game... As I sometimes say when people ask me about my diet, I eat everything you eat, except for a very short list of items--the critters that can move ...
  1 day ago

• WTO Says Brazil Can Saction US Over Cotton

  
  Dollars & Sense blog — Authority: 493
  The World Trade Organization has ruled that Brazil may impose trade sanctions against a variety of U.S. exports in a 9-year old complaint about U.S. government subsidies for cotton farmers. From the wires : The formal move at the WTOs dispute settlement body (DSB) brought Brazil one step closer to retaliating ...
  1 day ago

• 8 Steps Obama Could Take to Save Food

  
  AllergyKids Blog — Authority: 113
  The landscape of health has changed. No longer are our families guaranteed a healthy livelihood, not in the face of the current rates of cancer, diabetes, obesity, Alzheimers and allergies. In the words of Elizabeth Warren, Harvard University law professor who is head of the Congressional Oversight Panel, “We need ...
  1 day ago

• More on Consumer Protection from Costco Connection

  
  Mike Hammock's Blog — Authority: 104
  Every month Costco publishes a magazine called Costco Connection. Each issue contains a debate between to experts on some topic of general interest. Most are dull--should kids be spanked, do timesaving devices really save time, etc. Some topics are interesting, however. For example, I commented on an illuminating ...
  1 day ago

• How much do subsidies cost, anyway?

  
  Aguanomics — Authority: 591
  JR asks: What is the annual dollar value of water subsidies? I know Jimmy Carter was trying to end water subsidies and the guy who wrote Cadillac Desert [ Marc Reisner ] said that for every two dollars invested in water subsidies, one dollar of economic value was created. In any event, what is the annual tax payer ...
  2 days ago

• Economics of Government Subsidies - Teacher Presentation

  
  Economics — Authority: 143
  This new AS economics revision presentation looks at the use of subsidies by government for producers and consumers. Launch interactive presentation on Economics of Government Subsidies Download pdf handout of slides
  2 days ago

• UN attacks parents

  
  New World Order University Forum — Authority: 123
  The United Families International Blog is a good place to keep up with the coordinated Communist global attack on parent’s rights. This post describes the threat of home visitation from government bureaucrats authorized in the “health care” bill. Tune in to the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child to ...
  2 days ago

• Making Broadband Accessible: Innovation, Not Intervention

  
  OpenMarket.org — Authority: 660
  FCC regulators want to provide wider and cheaper broadband access by subsidizing it, raising taxes, and forcing network owners to share their network infrastructure with competitors. A few things the FCC should consider: -Subsidies don’t make broadband access any less expensive. They just change who pays for it. ...
  2 days ago

• Obamas Achievements ahead of COP15

  
  The GREEN MARKET — Authority: 122
  Despite the resistance of some legislators, the Obama administration has made considerable progress on the environmental front. Perhaps most importantly President Obama listens to federal climate scientists dire warnings. Under the Clean Air Act, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is moving forward on ...
  2 days ago

• Abortion clause raises problems for Obama (Coniption Fits in the Feminist Camp)

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 171
  The US Senate could start debating its final healthcare reform bill as early as Tuesday, pitting Democrat against Democrat ... [snip] “This is a horrible dilemma,” said Larry Sabato, a political science professor at the University of Virginia. “The Democrats have to pass something..." [snip] The House passed a bill ...
  2 days ago

• Stupak: I have votes to defeat health bill

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 171
  Rep. Bart Stupak (D-Mich.) pledged on Tuesday morning to defeat healthcare reform legislation if his abortion amendment is taken out, saying 10 to 20 anti-abortion-rights Democrats would vote against a bill with weaker language. "They’re not going to take it out," Stupak said on "Fox and Friends," referring to Senate ...
  3 days ago

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