Now, any tax break for natural resource extraction is in itself is a point of contention among environmentalists, myself included, but I will leave those arguments aside for now and focus on the purely economic issue with this tax deduction.

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Apart from the needs-test, Americans should rightly challenge the contention that the Soviet Union is unable to shift its budget priorities or use its wealthy resource base to pay cash for American agricultural products, rather than rely on the generosity of already-beleaguered U.S. taxpayers.

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