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- From: ekp@mcnc.org (Edward Pavelchek)
- Subject: Re: Tobacco subsidies (Was:
- Message-ID: <1992Sep15.214128.28286@mcnc.org>
- Sender: daemon@mcnc.org (David Daemon)
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- Organization: Good place for a disclaimer
- References: <27274@scicom.AlphaCDC.COM>
- Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 21:41:28 GMT
- Lines: 18
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- In article <27274@scicom.AlphaCDC.COM> wats@scicom.AlphaCDC.COM (Bruce Watson) writes:
- >Actually tobacco is not subsidized. There are price support guarantees
- >to prevent tobacco from falling below a mandated level. That minimum
- >price level has never been reached. No government money went to the
- >growers.
-
- But the price is supported by government restricted access to
- growing tobacco. Tobacco rights often far outvalued the farm to which
- they were attached, although recently they have been given more
- mobility. The use of police forces to eliminate potential competition
- certainly is helpful, if you don't want to call it a subsidy.
-
- (True of other crops, tobacco is just more highly restricted.)
- --
- Ed Pavelchek ekp@mcnc.org
- But I make a profit of 3 1/4 cents an egg by selling them for 4 1/4
- cents an egg to the people in Malta I buy them from for 7 cents an egg.
- Of course, *I* don't make the profit. Joseph Heller, Catcha 22
-