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Re:The time bomb in the tax code that's fueling mass tech la... by Retric on Friday June 06, 2025 @07:02PM (#44205910)
> The default situation is whatever was yesterday.

If Amazon delivered you a TV yesterday that doesn’t suddenly become the default where you can expect another one today and every day after that.

The US government does a new budget every year, making every year a new ballgame.

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Re:The time bomb in the tax code that's fueling mass tech la... by anp on Friday June 06, 2025 @07:04PM (#44205923)
No but if a TV was in my house yesterday I’d bet that it’ll be there today.

And my point about there being no natural state of subsidies is more important.

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Re:The time bomb in the tax code that's fueling mass tech la... by Retric on Friday June 06, 2025 @07:05PM (#44205936)
Those subsidies lasted a long time, but just as with a TV they didn’t last forever.

So if your argument is some subsidy will probably happen next year sure, but individual subsidies change over time. No specific subsidy is the default.

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Re:The time bomb in the tax code that's fueling mass tech la... by anp on Friday June 06, 2025 @07:13PM (#44205993)
This doesn’t seem connected at all to your previous claim. You said that the default is an absence of subsidies?
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Re:The time bomb in the tax code that's fueling mass tech la... by Retric on Friday June 06, 2025 @07:24PM (#44206058)
There’s no contradiction between saying:

For any specific situation the default is no subsidy.

With millions of situations some of them are not going to be at the default.

In 500 years will some specific things be subsidized? Vs in 500 years will something be subsidized?

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