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>Food is a basic need for everyone too and we don't set the price artificially low because of that. We most certainly do. Taxpayers heavily subsidize corn and

• partiallypro 10y ago
  That doesn't mean that we should subsidize every other industry. End all corporate welfare, you aren't going to do that by subsidizing another industry with the excuse that it's been done in the past. That's how you get entrenched interests sloshing around in government funds.
• harryh 10y ago
  1) It's not clear that these subsidies actually lower the costs on the shelves in grocery stores. 2) Almost everyone other than the recipients agrees that agricultural subsidies are almost always a bad idea.