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Originally Posted by flacaltenn
OK MerryLander::
I'll play..
If GE had not transformed itself into the Jolly Green Giant to suck up all those subsidies, they would have paid A LOT of taxes this year? Want to rescind those Green tax credits? The eco-left figured those would all go to the bearded overall types working on manure piles and wooden windmills in their yard. That was the expectation wasn't it?
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I bristle at these repeated claims that those of us who care about the environment actually have a secret agenda to funnel money to this or that entity. If GE truly made significant advancements in technologies that will reduce the environmental harm of human activities, then I'd say they earned their tax breaks. I've no idea what they actually did. Hopefully they really did accomplish something meaningful.
I don't want to drag the thread off-topic, but I really don't understand why environmentalism has become such a polarizing political issue. Perhaps it's simply a reflection of our times, where EVERYTHING has to be black or white, for or against, and a tool with which to bash one's opponent.