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Re:World's Largest Water Diversion Plan Won't Quench China's... by SamReidHughes on Monday December 11, 2017 @03:09PM (#15899965)
In the USA, welfare spending dwarfs farm subsidies by a factor of >50. No doubt this is true elsewhere, too. Private ownership of agriculture is what ended hunger. Its effect has been shown quite convincingly in Massachusetts and China.
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Re:World's Largest Water Diversion Plan Won't Quench China's... by setecgastronomy on Monday December 11, 2017 @03:28PM (#15900142)
> In the USA, welfare spending dwarfs farm subsidies by a factor of >50.

That depends on what you count as a "subsidy". Are all the roads, dams, diverting of rivers, etc counted as "subsidies"?

> Its effect has been shown quite convincingly in Massachusetts and China.

Modern subsidized agriculture in both countries has quite convincingly showed it.

Not sure why you are now moving the goalpost to welfare.

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