“You can’t put a tariff on goods you SELL only on those you Buy.”
I completely understand that. My point is that for countries like Canada, who apply tariffs to protect incapable industries within their country, we should be utilizing our superior ability to produce and sell goods and commodities and put the hurt on them. We don’t say produce as much wheat or corn as we could, because it would ‘’hurt” Canada’s production of those same commodities (the buzz word used most often is creating market “instabilities”). Our “reward” is protectionist tariffs on dairy products that they evidently need but can’t seem to produce enough to satisfy their own internal demand. My guess is that Canada’s dairy farmers have Ottawa by the short hair. I’m saying we should tell Canada that we are going to increase our production of those commodities where we are competitors, thus driving down our costs and selling them on the world market at prices they probably won’t be able to meet profitably, unless they drop their protectionist tariffs on stuff they buy from us. I am sure, that there are hungry people around the globe that would like to buy cheaper commodities than they are able to buy from Canada, and we’re going to help that process. Canada, like most of the rest of the world likes to “have it their way,” at our expense. Those days should be over!
The reason for subsidies are to keep the agricultural sector healthy and profitable.
We can’t push down prices without harming those producing the commodities’ prices here as well as Canada.
As to your comment about Hungary people around the world, there is certainly no shortage but when we step in and give away free food it may do more harm than good since it would retard the native agriculture’s development