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		lutorm on June 23, 2009 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Government Comes Through For Tesla With A $4... I hope you're not saying that the farm subsidies are meant to encourage new technology? If you are, what technology would that be?

proee on June 24, 2009 [–]

Actually, I was hoping to bring up farm subsidies as a failure of spending government money on something that should be handled via the private sector.

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