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https://www.sightline.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/hazardous-handouts-thumbnail.gif90140Hazardous Handouts documents a litany of outdated policies that siphon away tax dollars, wreak ecological havoc, and burden the Northwest economy. It finds that most environmentally harmful subsidies are not direct cash grants, like welfare checks, but indirect handouts: the sale of services or natural resources below market prices, tax breaks, and exemptions from environmental laws.