Six Reasons to Kill Farm Subsidies & Trade Barriers [wake up, traitors]

Reason: Six Reasons to Kill Farm Subsidies and Trade Barriers: A no-nonsense reform strategy: "America’s agricultural policies have remained fundamentally unchanged for nearly three-quarters of a century. The U.S. government continues to subsidize the production of rice, milk, sugar, cotton, peanuts, tobacco, and other commodities, while restricting imports to maintain artificially high domestic prices. The competition and innovation that have changed the face of the planet have been effectively locked out of America’s farm economy by politicians who fear farm voters [agrarian myth, ass-licker, the 'farm vote' is a few dirt-poor folks plus megadeath global corp$, which DO quake the boots of crooked congress] more than the dispersed consumers who subsidize them."

.../... [vomit-logic time: ] In the last two decades, the number of sugar refineries in the U.S. has dwindled from 23 to eight, largely because of the [criminal and RICO tactics of falsely ] doubled price of domestic raw sugar. During the last decade thousands of jobs have been lost in the confectionary industry, with losses especially heavy in the Chicago area. Expensive food also hurts restaurants. [no brain here: the markup would not shift versus grocery-store/ at-home-cost]

[I am too sickened to continue, this would be WEAK for an typical A+ high school student, what a disgrace, "grass-would-be-greener"
mentality with head firmly in uranus. trio of twits put names to this? ]
Daniel Griswold is director of the Cato Institute’s Center for Trade Policy Studies. Stephen Slivinski is Cato’s director of budget studies. Christopher Preble is Cato’s director of foreign policy studies.