'subsidized to the tune of' is a correct and usable phrase in written English
This phrase is typically used in a context where a certain figure is being referenced in relation to a sum of money. For example, "The government subsidized the project to the tune of three million dollars."
Reliance on these subsidies is especially heavy in counties such as Kern, where 93% of the 17,900 enrollees receive subsidies averaging $447 per month, and Tulare, where 96% of the 10,880 enrollees are subsidized to the tune of $592 per month.
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Blaine Kinsey Montpelier, Vt., Dec. 26, 2007 To the Editor: In your editorial, I was struck by the fact that insurance agents, who I assume are from reputable health corporations, are deceiving the elderly to give up Medicare in order to get their private insurance plan, which the government subsidizes to the tune of an extra 12percentt.
Never mind that the prime gamers are not the uninsured (whose unpaid bills cost "the system" less than $40 billion every year) but the underinsured covered by Medicare and Medicaid (whom private insurers cross-subsidize to the tune of over $90 billion annually because the government refuses to pay the full cost of their care).
Or it can start subsidizing it to the tune of $10 billion-plus a year.
But the federal government subsidizes airports to the tune of $13 billion a year and spends more than $30 billion on highways annually.
Each year, Denmark subsidizes Greenland to the tune of $460 million, or about $8,300 for each of Greenland's 55,000 inhabitants.
And many county taxpayers object to subsidizing Playland to the tune of $3.5 million to $5 million a year, depending on the weather, attendance and other variables.
Paying a competitive salary to IRF fellows is easy, because NSERC subsidizes them to the tune of $30,000 per year, an amount that the host company is required to supplement with at least an additional $10K.
Yet fossil fuel capitalism, still subsidized by governments to the tune of $620B a year, shows no sign of abandoning its relentless drive through "red lights" in the Earth's climate system.
Each year, the federal government subsidizes charitable donations to the tune of about $50 billion a year.
