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Originally Posted by 1010011010
So. Hettinga produces milk for half-price.
Various other dairy farmers can't compete.
Other dairy farmers go out of business.
Supply falls below demand.
Prices skyrocket.
The only winner is Hettinga. We don't create the government to protect the profits of a single individual at the expense of everyone else.
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That's competition. If he can do it, others could too, if they weren't worried about being the other odd-man-out. Instead we're layering restrictions to protect the subsidy system. This whole thing is about protecting the good-old-boy subsidy system against a more efficient but unmanaged and possibly less stable free market. Make no mistake, we are paying for it in the form of higher prices, hopefully in exchange for something useful.
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