[larry hagedon]

You are welcome to use your definition if you like, to me a tax break is and always will be a subsidy.

I am not going to waste much time on this. As I have pointed out, billions of dollars of earmarks, tax breaks, gifts, benefits of one kind or another have flowed to the oil companies, just as they are to the bio tech industry.

My point was, is, and will be that contrary to the assumptions of many, there have been trillions of dollars of oil company subsidies over the past 50 years. You can not honestly attack bio technology for subsidies, and at the same time deny oil company subsidies.

If you want to attack bio tech subsidies, that is fine with me, just do not sanctimoniously and falsely deny that oil companies have benefited massively also.

[_Jim]

You are welcome to use your definition if you like

As you are your own 'facts'.

(Psst: They weren't my own 'definitions' either; why do think I had them blockquoted?)

Enough 'wrestling with the pig' for one day ...