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As for this... Both the food carts and the brick and mortar store owners pay federal taxes. The cart owners don't pay property tax while the store owners 12 feet away do. That is more or less subsidization for the cart operating on public property.
The food trucks (likely) pay sales taxes, various restaurant permit fees, and gas taxes.

I'm just going to leave this link here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subsidy

Could you please show some form of actual subsidy? Mere proximity does not mean a subsidy.

CR