The big, nontransparent, and dangerous subsidies are off-budget, contingent liabilities generated by government support for too-big-to-fail financial institutions.&nbsp; These subsidies do not appear in any annual appropriation, and they are not well measured by the government – which is part of what makes them so appealing to the big banks and so damaging to everyone else.
罗姆尼提出补贴问题是对的，但他在描述过去四年美国所发生的事情时错得离谱。大规模、不透明且危险的补贴都是预算外的或有负债，它是由政府对太大而不能倒的金融机构的支持而产生的。这些补贴不会出现在任何年度拨款案中，政府也没有很好地计算其规模——这也是这些补贴对大银行如此具有吸引力、对其他人如此具有破坏力的部分原因。