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Subsidies and Costs Behind Government Aid to Transport
An examination of government subsidies across oil railways airlines and farming shows depletion allowances tax support for oil, tax-funded airports and air traffic control, periodical mailing privileges and cost-plus era plant origins. The piece contrasts private road, rail, and farm subsidies with wartime and postwar policy, urging scrutiny of how public funds lower costs for carriers and farms while inflation and hunger fears are framed as tied to those subsidies.
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Ol’ John Q
Unkle Sem
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Uncle Sam