People with large portions of their assets in deposit accounts are subsidizing this stimulus, effectively handing money to banks and borrowers in the process.
Unfortunately, Obamacare's penalties are small enough that many will continue without coverage until illness forces their hand, with taxpayers subsidizing their earlier irresponsibility.
China subsidizes many factories, handing out low-interest loans and making land available at below-market prices.
What is rather shocking is the heavy hand the government plays in subsidizing these donations.
The bad part is that the same mayor who lays off city employees and asks all New Yorkers to live with austerity will be handing out tax abatements and subsidizing the construction of office buildings in Lower Manhattan.
But the German people, on the other hand, have no wish to go on subsidizing the feckless Greeks.
Or that the Department of Transportation is still handing out grant money to oil train operators, essentially subsidizing the unsafe cars that killed 47 people in Lac Megantic, Canada?
In addition to supplying Libya's children with the hand-cranked computers, Negroponte and el-Qaddafi discussed the possibility of Libya subsidizing similar programs for its poorer neighbors.
"We haven't stopped and raised our hand and said, 'Whoa,' " said Barbour, who herself has faced criticism at Berkeley for subsidizing money-losing sports while the academic departments have been forced to make severe cuts.
Moves by Congress to exempt some agricultural goods from bills granting President Bush a relatively free hand to negotiate trade treaties were taken here as a sign that Washington would go on subsidizing farmers in ways Brazil has called unfair.
