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Comment by Retric

6 months ago

> The default situation is whatever was yesterday.

If Amazon delivered you a TV yesterday that doesn’t suddenly become the default where you can expect another one today and every day after that.

The US government does a new budget every year, making every year a new ballgame.

No but if a TV was in my house yesterday I’d bet that it’ll be there today.

And my point about there being no natural state of subsidies is more important.

  • Those subsidies lasted a long time, but just as with a TV they didn’t last forever.

    So if your argument is some subsidy will probably happen next year sure, but individual subsidies change over time. No specific subsidy is the default.