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To: 1rudeboy
What do you think happens when the government artificially depresses prices for a commodity? How do the producers react?

What do you think happens when the government artificially boost prices for a commodity, i.e., farm subsidies? The USG has been subsidizing farmers for a long time. It has never been a free market.

17 posted on 02/25/2008 6:28:58 AM PST by kabar
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To: kabar

Why are you asking me? I’m honestly curious.


19 posted on 02/25/2008 6:30:32 AM PST by 1rudeboy
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To: kabar
What do you think happens when the government artificially boost prices for a commodity, i.e., farm subsidies?

What happens, of course, is that you get MORE of the commodity, accumulating a surplus. That appears not to be the problem.

92 posted on 02/25/2008 11:09:22 AM PST by Lucius Cornelius Sulla (Mike Huckabee: If Gomer Pyle and Hugo Chavez had a love child this is who it would be.)
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