"In the Obama era, big business seems to prefer sure profits guaranteed by government to the risks of competition." http://m.weeklystandard.com/articles/crony-capital_794962.html …
@conncarroll right! So when is your mythical period of a free market creating food on its own? Ag subsidies came shortly after slavery ended
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@ryangrim false. New Deal was decades after slavery. -
@conncarroll but not close to a century. So wanna revise your claim? -
@conncarroll I'll revise for you: We grew food for a few decades without ag subsidies (but did have Jim Crow) -
@ryangrim are you ignorant? When did slaves grow food in PA, NY, OH, VT, etc? -
@conncarroll if you think a free market exists when millions of laborers are enslaved, that's insane. Slavery was a broad ag subsidy -
@ryangrim it wad subsidy for tobacco and cotton sectors in south. How did it subsidize corn growers in PA? -
@conncarroll think about it. You hire farm workers. Your neighbor doesn't pay them at all. Do you think you can hire yours cheaper? -
@ryangrim if you are a family farm in upstate New York, slave labor in South Carolina does not change what you pay your family for work - 3 more replies
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