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» Corporate Welfare Information Center - Large database of information on United States government subsidies to corporations, including general information, specific examples, statistics, sample reform legislation, and mailing lists.

» GRRN: End Subsidies for Wasting Campaign - Organization working against government subsidies in the United States to industries such as mining and timber firms, waste hauling, and landfill owners, giving them an unfair advantage over sustainable and resource-conserving businesses.

» Kick All Agricultural Subsidies (Kick-AAS) - Organization working to abolish all agricultural subsidies in the United States. Argues that agricultural subsidies in industrialized countries harm third-world farmers by denying them the opportunity to compete fairly.

» Paying for Pollution - How Taxpayers Subsidize Dangerous and Polluting Energy Programs - Report in PDF and HTML formats on subsidies in the United States for polluting industries: who benefits from these subsidies, why they hurt Americans and the environment, and what should be done instead.

» Physician Behavioral Response to Price Control - Scholarly article detailing a research project studying the response of physicians to price controls. Concludes that price controls are not effective in capping rising health care costs.

» Roosevelt's Message to Congress on Price Control - Argument by Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1941 for Congress to pass legislation capping prices to prevent unchecked inflation.

» WTO: Subsidies and Countervailing Measures - Outlines the World Trade Organization's position on various types of subsidies and measures that can be taken to remove or counter their negative effects.

» The Advanced Technology Program And Other Corporate Subsidies - Stephen Moore, Director Of Fiscal Policy Studies at the Cato Institute in Washington, DC, outlines the effects of various government subsidies and argues against corporate welfare grants. (June 3, 1997)

» Cato Institute: How Rent Control Drives Out Affordable Housing - Analyzes the results of rent control policies and the effects when such policies are removed and argues that rent control does more harm than good. Features both a synopsis and a full analysis. (May 21, 1997)

» Time To Condemn Subsidized Housing - An article claiming that subsidized housing causes harm, not good. (March 9, 1997)

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