This international cheater, owned in part by the European governments that subsidize it, has used the subsidies to steal tens of thousands of well-paying American jobs over the years.
Many of the critics of the subsidy are aware of the corruption associated with it - they know that a few individuals use the subsidy to milk the Nigerian treasury and amass enormous wealth.
People who are eligible for tax credits can use the subsidy to buy any insurance on the exchanges, including Gold plans (which are more generous than Silver) or Bronze plans (which are less generous than Silver).
The argument over whether this subsidy exists gripped Washington earlier this year as banking groups rushed to dispute the charge after lawmakers used the subsidy claim to justify moves to break up America's biggest banks.
For more than three decades, governments - particularly those of the US and the EU - have used the subsidy system to maintain a near-permanent surplus of wheat on world markets, sweeping away pasture systems and making it more profitable for farmers to confine their animals to sheds and feedlots.
At least 31 House Democrats have signed various recent letters to the House speaker, Nancy Pelosi, urging her to allow a vote on a measure to restrict use of the subsidies to pay for abortion, including 25 who joined more than 100 Republicans on a letter delivered Monday.
As a result, residents will have to leave to use the subsidies, which will pay 70percentt of their rent.
But those that cannot afford to make family coverage affordable for their employees could begin offering policies that cover just the employee and children, and exclude spouses, who would then be able to use the subsidies for individual policies.
Companies were using the federal subsidy to build Kmarts, McDonald's restaurants, private golf courses and tennis clubs — even a topless bar and an adult bookstore in Philadelphia.
When our witness to the world is to use the subsidy of fellow taxpayer's money to flex our political muscle, we have redefined ourselves "in conformity to the pattern of this world".
The businessmen mostly used the import subsidies to purchase consumer goods such as boats, motorbikes, refrigerators, radios, music systems and other similar goods, which were luxuries at the time.
