Free Market
Author:
James Bovard
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The Free Market 7, no. 11 (November 1989) American agricultural policy offers many instructive lessons on how to cripple a major sector of the economy. For 60 years, the U.S. government has waged a war against the market. And for 60 years, American taxpayers and consumers have been the biggest losers. Farm subsidies—roughly $20 billion a year in