>When governments go the whole nine yards, such as with China's PV and EV industries, or the US with agricultural subsidies, it results in very cheap products a

>When governments go the whole nine yards, such as with China's PV and EV industries, or the US with agricultural subsidies, it results in very cheap products and inputs to other products. We have subsidies for solar and other stuff but the competition is absurdly stiff. What the US government actually needs to do is limit imports. If you want to subsidize that stuff, the money can come from tariffs. >The US would be very different if it had started to import the bulk of it's corn from Ukraine in the late 1990s Yes, it would be worse. Food is very important strategically and economically, and subject to occasional disruptions. You don't want to have people starve because of one or more regions has a low yield. There is zero benefit to letting our land go fallow to save the meager cost of government agriculture programs to help farmers survive bad years. We don't import corn because we grow all we need. It is native to North America after all.