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**sportbos** · 03-10-2008, 08:25 PM

Originally posted by Kidicious

Farming takes time. That's why prices can fluctuate wildly for agricultural goods. If the subsidies encouraged more land to be used for farming in the recent past then prices would be higher today without subsidies.

Good luck making that argument. Subsidies raise prices, not lower them, in the short term, and any long-term effect they have in one area is offset with a reverse change in another area; further, removing the subsidy would nearly instantly remove the long-term effect (within a few years). It's not hard to switch from one product to another...

03-10-2008, 08:25 PM	#27
sportbos Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 471 Senior Member	Originally posted by Kidicious Farming takes time. That's why prices can fluctuate wildly for agricultural goods. If the subsidies encouraged more land to be used for farming in the recent past then prices would be higher today without subsidies. Good luck making that argument. Subsidies raise prices, not lower them, in the short term, and any long-term effect they have in one area is offset with a reverse change in another area; further, removing the subsidy would nearly instantly remove the long-term effect (within a few years). It's not hard to switch from one product to another...
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