@ryangrim I actually agree with you. It definitely predates Obama. But he has embraced it and deepened it.
@conncarroll I'll revise for you: We grew food for a few decades without ag subsidies (but did have Jim Crow)
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@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 -
@conncarroll You started:"we grew food for centuries w/o ag subsidies" & r now down to a farm in NY. Care to revise your sweeping assertion? -
@ryangrim and actually we started on crony capitalism. so, again, is it better when we have less or more of it? -
@conncarroll Let's go with less. But your point that for centuries capitalism functioned just fine without government is just not true
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