Lamar Alexander actually said...

My reading of history suggests that long-term subsidies--and 20 years is long-term--tend to cause costs to stay high instead of introduce the competition that cause costs to go lower.

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Alexander argues that long-term subsidies keep costs high instead of fostering competition.

03/13/2012

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