The rest would go to renewable energy sources, like wind farms, and to help subsidize a program that would essentially repay solar-panel users for feeding energy into the power grid.
Ford, which has subsidized a program to make home computers available to all of its employees, estimates that the intranet -- parts of which workers can tap into from home -- is saving the company up to $2 million a year by automating many paper-shuffling tasks.
However, a copy of a 2010 report obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request indicates that U.S. taxpayers are subsidizing a $126.5 million program that exterminates more than 4 million wild animals annually, including thousands of geese.
You've built an entire political career on not understanding the difference between killing a baby and subsidizing an insurance program that includes a voluntary option with a separate premium through a government run health-care exchange.
Wouldn't subsidizing such a program make more sense than throwing billions of dollars at automakers to build cars no one will buy?
"There is no reason for taxpayers to be subsidizing a duplicative catfish inspection program that will cost millions to set up and another $15 million to operate annually," Ms. Shaheen said.
If somebody is earning $1 million a year, and you run the model, and they could, after offsets, get $10 million -- should the taxpayer and this program subsidize a $10 million lifestyle and a $10 million tax-free award?
For the past few years, Rockefeller has subsidized a small seed-breeding program in Nairobi, Kenya, to help farmers increase their yields, but the Green Revolution never really made it to Africa, at least not on a broad scale.
The government subsidizes a COBRA payment reduction program for certain situations during poor financial times.
Some fans may resent talk that baseball will eliminate a few small-market franchises like Minnesota, whose voters have not gotten with the program and subsidized a new ballpark for the owners.
