Venezuela sprays huge amounts of subsidised oil around the region, for example; it also subsidises domestic petrol prices.
The Tories have long been convinced that the capital subsidises the rest of the country: in 2012 it was estimated that £1 in every £5 earned in London was spent outside of the city.
A Guardian investigation of three specific projects, run by Shell, ExxonMobil and Marathon Petroleum, has revealed that the subsidises were all granted by politicians who received significant campaign contributions from the fossil fuel industry.
An agreeable silence for Osborne and David Cameron, who still argue that the primary problem in Britain is that the public sector "crowds out" private enterprise, without ever acknowledging how much the public subsidises business.
"The RVC subsidises the rent to this price which is why it's actually cheaper compared with other London student accommodation," she says.
The larger pool is open to the paying public after midday, and forms part of a private enterprise (also including a gym and a block of flats) that subsidises organic lunches, smaller than average classes and after-school care.The experiments seem to be working.
A government scheme that allows firms to put underused employees on short-time working, and which subsidises their pay, has stopped unemployment rising sharply.
AMERICA'S Medicare system, which subsidises health care for the elderly, has been much in the news for waste and fraud.
In other words, having propped up prices for its farmers, the EU then subsidises the price for the rest of the world's consumers, depressing prices on world markets.
And their concern to protect farmers from exploitative merchants has slowed the development of contract farming (see article).India's government still fixes prices and subsidises inputs, when public money would be far better spent on infrastructure and research.
The state subsidises school lunches for 23m children in the 680 poorest counties, as well as nutritional supplements for hundreds of thousands of babies.
