Lex Anteinternet: The 2023 Wyoming, and Montana, Legislative Session. When Freedom can be another name for things you'll lose.

We noted an item yesterday on this thread about Big Sky Country:

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That being:

January 9, 2023

Montana's far right legislators have also formed their own Freedom Caucus.

A comment on this story on Montana Public Radio states:

"Farm subsidies up to $4 million. PPP up to $443,906.09. There are 6 out of 14 Montana Freedom Caucus members receiving subsidies." --From reporter @TomLutey on Twitter:

This doesn't surprise me at all.

For some reason, hardly anyone recognizes their own subsidies as existent.  

In the west, we hardly grasp this at all.  Coal is mined on the public domain subject to a leasing law that favors exploration, and whether that's recognized as a subsidiary or not, it is.  The same with oil and gas production.

And highway construction?  That's subsidized by the Federal Government and, further, is basically a subsidy for the trucking industry (and the tourist industry).  But for that, Americans would ship, and to a surprising extent, travel by rail.

We could go on, but we've noted this all before.  Basically, people don't think these things are subsidies as it doesn't fit their Weltanschauung, which doesn't mean that they aren't subsidies.