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The other five-sixths of us have too much.


Several of the people pictured in the story are overweight. The cruel irony is that if the price support for wheat/corn/soybean processed food was removed these people would get to feel what physical starvation was like.


Yeah, because corn, wheat, and soybean are inelastic goods, am I right?

I can't go 3 days without that sweet sweet soybean oil, or I will literally starve to death.

I'd actually draw the supply and demand curve and what would happen to the various suppliers and buyers if the subsidies were removed, but I'm afraid I would get labeled a dirty Randian and branded a heretic.




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