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Re:Decline of Species That Pollinate Poses a Threat to Globa... by pault on Friday February 26, 2016 @10:07AM (#11181716)
How does government interference in a market make it near-perfectly free? The U.S. agriculture market is infamous as a source of government waste and pork barrel spending:

http://www.economist.com/news/united-states/21643191-crop-pr...

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Re:Decline of Species That Pollinate Poses a Threat to Globa... by Joof on Friday February 26, 2016 @10:48AM (#11181957)
Sorry, perfectly competitive is the phrase I'm looking for.
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Re:Decline of Species That Pollinate Poses a Threat to Globa... by pault on Friday February 26, 2016 @12:14PM (#11182547)
I don't think that's correct either. Many of the crops grown in the american west wouldn't be profitable if it weren't for huge subsidies. In the most egregious cases Californian farmers have grown thirsty, low value crops while their counterparts in the Southeast were being paid to destroy them.

https://mises.org/library/water-subsidies-and-shortages-amer...

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