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[chox] Subventionen versus sinnliche Vernunft



Vielleicht kann jemand damit was anfangen ;-)
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The Subsidy Scandal: How Your Government Wastes Your Money to Wreck Your
Environment
Author: Charlie Pye-Smith

http://www.earthscan.co.uk/asp/bookdetails.asp?key=3796
<http://www.earthscan.co.uk/asp/bookdetails.asp?key=3796> 

Governments spend trillions every year on subsidies to a whole host of
industries, they are supposed to contribute to the public good, but do
they?

In the vast majority of cases, the money, much of it derived from public
taxes, is not merely wasted, it is used to wreck the environment. All too
often subsidies go to those who least need them--frequently to corporations
and special interest groups which recycle some of the funds to support the
politicians who keep the subsidies going. 

Charlie Pye-Smith has written an eye-opening book on this huge racket.
Based
on extensive research, The Subsidy Scandal 'follows the money' to find out
where it goes and what it produces. 

The Subsidy Scandal raises major questions about the way we are
governed--and mis-governed--and highlights the need for urgent, world-wide
reform. The Subsidy Scandal uncovers how: 

For several years, a Welsh farmer received the equivalent of a US$24,000
subsidy from the EU to grow 100 tons of flax, which he was then ordered, as
a condition of the subsidy, to harvest and destroy. One year he decided to
save himself the cost of harvesting by plowing the crop in. EU inspectors
learnt of his actions and took him to court, where he was prosecuted for
obtaining a subsidy by deception. The judge described the case as 'scarcely
believable'. 

For more information visit:
http://www.earthscan.co.uk/asp/bookdetails.asp?key=3796
<http://www.earthscan.co.uk/asp/bookdetails.asp?key=3796>

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