On: The World Blows over $5T a Year on Oil and Gas Subsidies: Report

[challenger22]

Lack of externality-cancelling taxes is not equal to a subsidy.

[nathan_long → challenger22]

If a town allowed a restaurant to dump their trash in a public park for free, would you consider that a subsidy?

[gridlockd → nathan_long]

No.

[nathan_long → gridlockd]

LOL

[nathan_long → nathan_long]

Competing restaurants and whoever is in charge of the park cleanup budget would disagree with you quite strongly

[malcolmgreaves → challenger22]

How is the effect different? It's a cost that the private company should be paying, but is not.

EDIT - if your comment is pointing out that these things are techincaly different words/phrases, then ok. However, to me, that doesn't make for good discussion: talking about the effects and results, and not fighting about term meanings in the trenches, leads to points of productive conversation.