Timeline for Does Shell get $2 billion a year in subsidies from the US government?
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| Nov 13, 2017 at 18:21 | comment | added | PoloHoleSet | "Shell" is a stand-in for the petroleum industry. I don't think the actual claim that it is just Shell. And, yes, getting specialized tax breaks not available to other companies, at large, is absolutely a subsidy, @MikeScott. | |
| Aug 5, 2017 at 2:03 | comment | added | Mark Rogers | I haven't studied the semantics much, but Wikipedia defines subsidies to include tax breaks without any restriction on who ultimately receives the net amount. | |
| Aug 4, 2017 at 14:15 | comment | added | Mike Scott | Shell pays money to the US government, not vice versa. A reduction in that payment is not a subsidy unless and until it gets to the point where the net money transfer is from the US government to Shell. | |
| Aug 2, 2017 at 16:03 | vote | accept | Mark Rogers | ||
| S Aug 2, 2017 at 14:18 | history | suggested | SQB | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Aug 1, 2017 at 20:15 | history | edited | Mark Rogers | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
I use the 'around' twice in two sentences, so I switched to 'focused on' for the second use.
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| Aug 1, 2017 at 17:25 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackSkeptic/status/892436055449899010 | ||
| Aug 1, 2017 at 17:13 | answer | added | ReasonablySkeptical | timeline score: 33 | |
| Aug 1, 2017 at 17:06 | answer | added | DenisS | timeline score: 127 | |
| Aug 1, 2017 at 15:58 | history | edited | Mark Rogers | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Aug 1, 2017 at 15:44 | history | asked | Mark Rogers | CC BY-SA 3.0 |