Chicago Tribue Editorial: "Let the Wind Subsidy Blow Away"

[Gidney N Cloyd]

A very, let's face it, uniquely Tribune-y editorial from Sunday's Chicago Tribune.
http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2014-01-05/opinion/ct-edit-wind-energy-subsidy-edit-0105-20140105_1_wind-energy-turbines-wind-farms
My favorite line:

The obvious solution here is for Congress and the White House to stop manipulating the tax code as America's de facto energy policy: Thorough federal tax reform should sunset this arbitrary favoritism for wind energy and other politically favored industries.

Meanwhile Exxon et al will go on collecting their tributes...

[intaglio]

1. And the nuclear industry will continue to be subsidised n/t

[AtheistCrusader]

2. The point of a subsidy is to encourage something that might not have an obvious

up front positive cost-benefit, but has other social knock-on effects that are highly desirable.

Keep the wind subsidy. Kill something else, like Coal or Nuclear. I'd like to see the pretzel logic the author of that piece would come up with to defend those subsidies.