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Robbing Paul to pay Peter makes both poor

Analysis: Taxpayer grants and subsidies to business of necessity shift resources from profitable businesses to less profitable ones.

Wed, 07 Mar 2018

Here’s a sure-fire policy for an economic boost: Find a profitable farm, take the tractor, give it to the farm down the road that’s struggling. That will make the economy hum.

Such a policy is too stupid to get through a Green Party conference but has nonetheless found favour under the previous

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