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Is food a necessity or a luxury for individuals? For a nation?

Ok, take it one step further. What foods are a necessity and what foods are a luxury. Is a cupcake a luxury or a necessity? Is Corn a luxury or a necessity? I hate corn, therefore I decide we should not subsidize corn because I don't like it and you don't have to have it to survive. You do do just fine with wheat, which I happen to like. What about a farmer that raises corn and feeds it to his cattle? Isn't that a waste? Why not eat the corn and get rid of the beef. We need more regulation to go along with those subsidies. In your world you will have a government deciding which farmers (based on what they produce) will get subsidized and which farmers will not. Growing sugar beets? You are on your own baby, sugar is bad for you.

In your world you will have a government deciding which farmers (based on what they produce) will get subsidized and which farmers will not.

No this is not my world, but in YOUR world, you would have a global socialist institution making this decision for us, which illustrates the other point I was making. I have repeatedly pointed out on this thread that when the global socialist WTO decides what we Americans must do, it flies in the face of our constitutional guarantee of a republican government and ELECTED representation. You "free traders" must think this is ok, because you do not denounce this, instead you appear to prefer that a global body make decisions for everyone.

Some of the things you are saying make me wonder, what form of goverment do you espouse? Because you sound a little bit like the spoiled econazis who claim they ride bikes so they don't want to pay for roads. They ignore the fact that the truck that delivered the bike from the factory to that person probably used a road to get it there, so I wonder if you are deliberately ignoring the purpose of some public projects meant to protect your liberty when you petulantly complain that citizens cannot make decisions that are supportive to a free society.