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<blockquote data-quote="mons meg" data-source="post: 2398313" data-attributes="member: 90"><p>Ok, I didn't mean to conflate the price controls put on specific products like milk with the more general issue of direct payments, etc referred to in the Cato report. It's an entirely separate form of meddling when the .gov sets a price floor and then helps enforce it by throwing tariffs on imports of those products.</p><p></p><p>My uncle is a wheat farmer in Kansas, and says much the same thing as you, he wishes we didn't need the farm bill subsidies but they have too thoroughly rigged the game. Well, I say he is a wheat farmer, but he planted a substantial amount of corn the past couple years because the price of corn is too high to ignore. Largely due to the stupid ethanol mandate.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="mons meg, post: 2398313, member: 90"] Ok, I didn't mean to conflate the price controls put on specific products like milk with the more general issue of direct payments, etc referred to in the Cato report. It's an entirely separate form of meddling when the .gov sets a price floor and then helps enforce it by throwing tariffs on imports of those products. My uncle is a wheat farmer in Kansas, and says much the same thing as you, he wishes we didn't need the farm bill subsidies but they have too thoroughly rigged the game. Well, I say he is a wheat farmer, but he planted a substantial amount of corn the past couple years because the price of corn is too high to ignore. Largely due to the stupid ethanol mandate. [/QUOTE]
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