Ken, you don't believe in taxation and subsidies in any form. You believe there is a free market system. Our economies are subsidized to the gills. We would have developing world GDPs without them.

Not to put too fine a point on it, Chinese workers are subsidizing every facet of the US standard of living. Interest on their money pays the full cost of their rapidly growing military now throwing its weight around.

Subsidies provide your discriminating tastes. Want to go back to nylon?