1. Another reader challenged the notion that the project should be judged unworthy just because it would require taxpayer subsidies for its creation and subsequent operation. 2. Any bailout of the fund would be a taxpayer subsidy of middle- and higher- income Texans who are most likely to invest in the fund. 3. As universities across the country struggle with tight budgets, both ASU and UA benefit from taxpayer subsidies. 4. But newly released numbers indicate that the Kingdome is already awash in red ink, and surviving off taxpayer subsidies. 5. Even systems serving areas far more dense than Southern California require taxpayer subsidy. 6. Instead, increase energy efficiency standards for cars and appliances and taxpayer subsidies for alternative fuels. 7. It is unrealistic to believe that taxpayer subsidies would not promote a new elitist state-supported private education system with religious overtones. 8. It supplied tens of billions of dollars in taxpayer subsidies to industrial companies that either collapsed or eliminated most of their workers. 9. Kyl said the program should be eliminated because it is a taxpayer subsidy to U.S. businesses that firms would and should pay for themselves. 10. Major league franchises are, after all, as good a way to generate taxpayer subsidies as economic redevelopment. |