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[–]dapper_dan4 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Oh, you mean all of those things that the US has been subsidizing for so many years? Sure, but I guess the subsidy would probably go away as well. The US produces massive surpluses of food. We don't have a comparative advantage in large part in food production. But hey, I'm a capitalist, so I tend to see this as a distortion of the free market. See how well those places would do without their federal subsidies (remember the tariffs and soybeans? Yeah, the government had to give them welfare...or "subsidies" if you will, to make sure they stayed afloat).