Also loggers, quarrymen, miners, hunters, fishermen...
Naw, clearly the world is a metropolis measured in tens of square miles large with fiber internet, supermarkets that spawn stuff on shelves, and electricity dyed green.
wouldn’t the market pay the actual value for all the essential things you mentioned if subsidy is not there and rural cost of living goes up significantly?
Instead of of subsidizing, we would merely pay for what we consume isn’t that a better deal ? Both you and the farmer get to choose how the money is being spent ?
Farming is heavily subsidized worldwide. If the US stopped subsidizing farming unilaterally, it would decimate (for the pedants yes I know decimate means decline by 10%) US farming.
Are you saying that we should depend on other countries for food? You think our chip dependency leaves us vulnerable…
Today we are exporting Alfa Alfa as feedstock to global markets from our drought stricken southwest.
The subsidies we are providing has encouraged farming in desserts and is destroying precious water we have . Is depending on another nation so bad compared to that ?
Besides There are other ways to protect industry without subsidies- put a tariff on imports for example .
A tariff would not protect exports however just local consumption, farming subsidies are designed to dump are unsustainably grown produce in global markets not protect the local Industry.
To the best of my knowledge the USPS doesn't deliver food. Farmers are quite digital and even though remote, many use PO Boxes for their junk mail which could easily be done by an alternative service.
