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**Enalsebeerkawl** · 08-26-2009, 03:37 AM

If a definition of a subsidy is simply that businesses will hire more employees, government healthcare may qualify, though I'm not even sure. I'm not convinced government healthcare would in and of itself allow businesses to hire my employees.

More to the point though, I don't think that "allowing a business to hire more employees" is an accurate description of what a subsidy is. The well maintained and efficient highway system we have in the USA and Canada, combined with the well funded police and legal system certainly helps trade and allows businesses to hire more employees, yet I don't think that is a subsidy.

08-26-2009, 03:37 AM	#36
Enalsebeerkawl Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 457 Senior Member	If a definition of a subsidy is simply that businesses will hire more employees, government healthcare may qualify, though I'm not even sure. I'm not convinced government healthcare would in and of itself allow businesses to hire my employees. More to the point though, I don't think that "allowing a business to hire more employees" is an accurate description of what a subsidy is. The well maintained and efficient highway system we have in the USA and Canada, combined with the well funded police and legal system certainly helps trade and allows businesses to hire more employees, yet I don't think that is a subsidy.
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