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Gabu
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« on: February 13, 2005, 01:13:09 AM »

I don't really know enough about this stuff to fully form a comprehensive opinion, but from what I do know, I'm marginally opposed to farm subsidies.  The more I learn about economics, the more I become in favor of a free market.  If left to its own devices, the farming industry would reach an equilibrium where exactly as much food is being sold as people want to buy.  Subsidies artificially keep an inflated number of people in business and uses taxpayer money to do so.
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Gabu
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« Reply #1 on: February 13, 2005, 02:12:04 AM »

The more I learn about economics, the more I become in favor of a free market.

MWAHAHAHA, our insidious plan is working...errr...I mean...pay no attention to the man behind the curtain!

Hah.

Well, I doubt I'll ever be totally libertarian... I personally think that the government can do good things (mainly centered around rectifying market failure), just not as much as hardcore economic liberals do.
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