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Why things cost
May. 6th, 2008 10:31 amEver wondered why the salad at a fast food joint is more expensive than the giant size combo burger and fries with a soda?
Because the government pays farmer to grow corn for feed and high fructose corn syrup, soybeans that get reconstituted into stuff that barely qualifies as food, cotton, wheat, and tobacco (?!).
It's almost enough to make one think the libertarians might not be THAT scary crazy.
Because the government pays farmer to grow corn for feed and high fructose corn syrup, soybeans that get reconstituted into stuff that barely qualifies as food, cotton, wheat, and tobacco (?!).
It's almost enough to make one think the libertarians might not be THAT scary crazy.
