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government bribing the future to behave like its preferred version of the present
means A sum of money given by a government or institution to support a business, industry, or activity deemed worth keeping cheap, viable, or alive.
from From Latin 'subsidium,' which began as a military term meaning a reserve force held in support — the troops waiting in the rear, ready to back up the front line. The root 'sub-' (under, behind) plus 'sedere' (to sit) gives the literal image of those who 'sit behind,' a body held in reserve. It passed into English through Anglo-French in the medieval period, where it shifted from soldiers-in-waiting to money-in-waiting: aid voted by Parliament to support the crown. The sense of 'reserves standing by to prop something up' never really left.
- sugar shield
- US sugar costs double the world price
- fossil giants
- Fossil fuels get trillions yearly worldwide
- corn empire
- Corn subsidies built America's high-fructose diet
- sticky forever
- Temporary subsidies almost never actually end
- hidden tax
- Someone always pays, just not at checkout
us corn subsidy program — $10 billion yearly to american farmers since 1996
saudi aramco energy subsidy — $34 billion annually on domestic oil and electricity prices