Talk:Subsidy/Archives/2013

Taxed vs subsidies
Gasoline in the US would not be considered subsidized, as it has taxes. Even if it has no taxes, it still wouldn't be subsidized. If on the other hand, the government, payed people and companies so that the gasoline would have a lower price than the market price, it would be considered subsidized, as it is in countries like Venezuela where gasoline is 0.05 dollars a gallon compared to the US where it is not subsidized and has a price that follows the market price, usually at around 3.5 dollars a gallon. Jørgen88 (talk) 16:18, 27 March 2013 (UTC)
 * Tax expenditure says that a tax exemption is a form of tax expenditure. It cites a comment from 1967 of someone describing tax expenditure as a subsidy. This article also describes tax expenditure as a subsidy.--greenrd (talk) 05:36, 7 September 2013 (UTC)
 * First of all, that is a broadly statement to make. Its as if someone should state that salary and pension is the same concept, which would be half the truth. Tax expenditure is not the same as a tax relief. But even if it shouldn't be so, it still is not a good enough reason to remove Tax exemption from the list of See also. I think its important for people to have the ability to read an article and then have options to read about similar topics from the see also section, whether its the same concept or totally different, whether its mentioned in the article or not. Jørgen88 (talk) 08:38, 7 September 2013 (UTC)
 * The manual of style says that "as a general rule" links that have already been linked to above should not be included in the See Also (and I can see why it says that, because in some long articles a large number of unnecessary duplicate links have accumulated in the See Also that have been linked to in the sections above). But as this is (in my understanding of the word "exemption") a subset of tax expenditure, and some people might not know this, I have changed my mind and I will no longer object to the See Also link.--greenrd (talk) 09:50, 7 September 2013 (UTC)