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- From: wats@scicom.AlphaCDC.COM (Bruce Watson)
- Newsgroups: sci.econ
- Subject: Tobacco subsidies (Was:
- Message-ID: <27274@scicom.AlphaCDC.COM>
- Date: 14 Sep 92 19:19:58 GMT
- Organization: Alpha Science Computer Network, Denver, Co.
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- Newsgroups: sci.econ
- Subject: Re: Cable TV Consumer Protection Act of 1992
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- References: <1992Sep12.210559.18395@tfs.com> <1992Sep13.084637.7835@lmpsbbs.comm.mot.com>
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- In article <1992Sep12.210559.18395@tfs.com| eric@tfs.com (Eric Smith) writes:
- |In article <71IG03C481So00@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com> jsp@pls.amdahl.com writes:
- |>Oh, and keep in mind that it was the government that created that
- |>monopoly in the first place, so they kind of have a duty to oversee
- |>what they created.
- |
- |So we pay them taxes to maintain the monopoly, and then we pay them more
- |taxes to oversee it and prevent it from acting like a monopoly?
- |Sounds sort of like the combination of tobacco subsidies and spending money
- |to try to get people to stop smoking.
- |
- Actually tobacco is not subsidized. There are price support guarantees
- to prevent tobacco from falling below a mandated level. That minimum
- price level has never been reached. No government money went to the
- growers.
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- Don't get me wrong. I'm not an apologist for the tobacco lobby. Yesterday
- I celebrated 16 smoke free years.
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- Bruce Watson (wats@scicom) Tumbra, Zorkovick; Sparkula zoom krackadomando.
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