Makes sense to me, but if you're an oil executive scarcely being charged for the global damage your industry causes (an effective annual subsidy, says the International Monetary Fund, of nearly $2 trillion, money that would be better spent subsidizing nonpolluting energy sources), responsible to your shareholders and making a fortune, would you start erecting windmills?
For every dollar we spend subsidizing renewables, we spend six subsidizing fossil fuels.
We could take the money we spend "subsidizing yesterday's energy," and "invest in tomorrow's".
City Council members insisted the group help make up $800,000 they claimed the city had spent subsidizing the event in past years.
With as much as $585 billion also spent subsidizing the child abuse industry, so it's no wonder some unethical abuse industry professionals cash in by keeping the public in danger and placing children in dangerous homes.
In Myanmar, the social franchise operated by PSI spends roughly $1.00 in quality management and retailing for every $1.00 spent subsidizing medical commodities.
Instead, Mr. Hatoyama says he plans to divert the money toward social welfare spending, like subsidizing child care and lowering tuition fees at schools.
Elevating to the OELs also significantly reduces government spending on subsidizing low-income homeowners through, for example, a voucher program, to mitigate flood risk.
The debate can be summed up in this rhetorical question: "Why should the government through its spending be subsidizing acts of private discrimination that it would be forbidden by the Constitution to do itself?" See Bakke, at 329 336 (Brennan, dissenting).
The United States spends billions subsidizing domestic rice farmers.
