[eastforker]

Would anyone here like to pay $20 a pound for hamburger meat.How about $10 for a box of cheerios or $12 a gallon for milk.You guys just don't get it.If gasoline went to $4 a gallon in three months time people would go nuts,but they would pay it nonetheless to get to work.Take away subsidies and the family farm is done for and the mega corporate farmer takes over,you think they wont manipulate production to drive up prices,if so you are badly mistaken.In the meantime when prices skyrocket,average americans would have to be subsidised to keep from starving to death.

[APBaer]

"Would anyone here like to pay...... $12 a gallon for milk"

The problem is that I might already be paying more than $12 for a gallon of milk;
$3 or so to the store PLUS my share of the farm subsidies divided by the gallons of milk that I use.

Might be a sight more that $12, just hidden, like the "hidden tax" that it is.

[thrcanbonly1]

Would anyone here like to pay $20 a pound for hamburger meat.How about $10 for a box of cheerios or $12 a gallon for milk. Move to Canada

[MightyMouth]

Well, let's see... Maybe we should subsidize the truckers who move that food from farm to market, hm? Let's pay them to not drive. Then there are the factory workers who prep the food for market. We can pay them to sit home. Grocery stores ... now there are thousands and thousands of folks we can pay to not work. Come on ... you're not using your heads, people! If we work hard at it, none of us will have to work, or produce a damn thing! Woo hoo!

[Hank Rearden]

Would anyone here like to pay $20 a pound for hamburger meat.How about $10 for a box of cheerios or $12 a gallon for milk.

What a load of crap. You either know nothing about markets and price mechanisms or you're just blindly parroting the Welfare Farmer line.

Tell you what - let's go for it! I'll bet prices won't skyrocket once the Welfare Farmers get off our backs and off our tits, and I'm willing to take my chances with the free market, because it works.

Are you?