That it is costly and ineffective strongly suggests it is overdone. How can you defend those extra costs? It's easy to investigate the complaints, unless you're in serious denial.
Natural Gas Policy: Access, Not Over-Regulation and Subsidies
Keystone XL Pipeline, by the Numbers - Energy Tomorrow Blog
You still don't understand what I need from you. Take this from your source:
Others are pushing for more regulation due to environmental concerns over a critical part of the gas-extraction process, hydraulic fracturing.
Now, what is the concern, is it valid, and does it outweight what we get and any other option? This is what I'm asking you for and not some conservative foundation complaining.
Spending money on business? You mean as in the case of GM and Chrysler? I agree that it is completely wrong. There is no vehicle shortage in the US and no threat of there being one.
They do provide jobs though, and since so many think government controls jobs in the US, the politiican can't afford to let that many be lost. Blow back would be rough. Also, business can donate a lot more money than you and I can, so there goes our tax dollars.
Certainly any company, and individual, will leave if their are better opportunities elsewhere. Many states and countries compete for companies in order to have more jobs for their citizens. There is nothing unusual about that. If the US government is not a good place to do business, and in the past it was among the best, then businesses will do what they are doing. Leave It is not difficult to figure out.
Yep. Which means my father-in-law's generation was wrong to be loyal to a company that would never be loyal to him. This being the case, no since trying to appease them when there is simply not enough we can do. We are looking at having third world workers here, saying good ridance to business that won't pay our wages, provide health care, or contribute to the contry they use.
Of course not. That runs contrary to the idea of free enterprise. As the US has been turning its back on the free enterprise system, national debts and unemployment have increased, and they'll continue to do so.
Great, we agree. Now talk to your conservative brotheren who constantly are willing to give them the farm all while kissing their feet and thanking them for the right to lick up that toe jam.
It is not wise for the government to give money to businesses. The opportunity for corruption and incompetence and cronyism should be abundantly clear.
yes, as we've seen. And yet, it has been this way, our tax dollars going to business, for a long, long, long time. We spend far more on coporate welfare than regular welfare, by a large margin.