It's NOT socialism by any stretch of the imagination; except to those who haven't a clue what socialism is.
Socialism is stuff like the farm subsidies posted above, paying farmers to sit around and NOT farm, which the government still does and I've always been opposed to.
But then people like you would probably cry if a loaf of bread actually reflected the real cost of growing the grain to make the flower.
You want the government to step in and destroy the free market.