I can easily understand where milk “should” be more expensive than it is.
We don’t have a right to it, it shouldn’t be subsidized, and I think many will pay the market price if we ease up to it.
It’s perishable. Of course it should cost more than soda!
Agreed on the “free market” idea. But the $8/gallon isn’t free market - it is the government being forced to purchase the milk at a calculated price (based on wages, costs, etc.).
And like I said before - this isn’t about milk, and only partly about farm subsidies. It is about food stamps (which accounts for 67% of this “farm” bill).