Subsidy is a dirty word. It signifies a tainting of pure commerce, a distortion of markets, a corruption of values.
Like cigarettes, the addictive rush of subsidies can feel good in the short term, but in the long run they are toxic. The subsidised economy is a grey, unfit, spluttering creature who
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