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Cato Video • November 20, 2012 

# Scott Lincicome: U.S. Is a “Huge Subsidizer” 

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You’ve heard of Solyndra, Government Motors, and the tens of billions of dollars transferred annually from U.S. taxpayers to America’s wealthy agribusinesses — including the occasional farmer living in Manhattan. Worldwide, government subsidies to chosen industries and favored companies are out of control, bankrupting treasuries, breeding cronyism, misdirecting and deterring private investment, distorting market signals, and undermining support for capitalism and free trade. Always demanding more, domestic subsidy recipients cite foreign subsidies as grounds for yet more largesse, and the cycle continues. How will this global subsidies race end?

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##### [Scott Lincicome](/people/scott-lincicome)

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