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> Lets talk about the smallest tax (subsidy!) we pay one of the 6 listed about, ethanol subsidies. 40 million acres are used to grow corn for ethanol subsidies
by vasco 2y ago
> Lets talk about the smallest tax (subsidy!) we pay one of the 6 listed about, ethanol subsidies. 40 million acres are used to grow corn for ethanol subsidies (out of 93m total).
Isn't that for food security in case of war?
- throwaway173738 2y agoYou can’t feed an entire nation nothing but corn.
- vasco 2y agoThe practicality is besides the point, I just thought it a bit disingenuous to not mention why the US subsidizes corn so much. To your point it's not the only thing like that. There's huge national reserves of lots of stuff, the amount of cheese for example is huge.
- throwaway173738 2y agoGovernment cheese is a real thing and it is not very good.