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“Farmers must be supported with subsidy to boost production of food.”

Food Farmers Agriculture Production Subsidy

Author:Lailah Gifty Akita

“Between 1992 and 2022, the public paid a staggering £9.2 billion to landowners and farmers through environmental stewardship schemes, when measured in cash terms, or £12.5 billion when adjusted for inflation.”

Stewardship Countryside Public Money Land Ownership Subsidy

Book:The Lie of the Land

Source: The Lie of the Land

“The prevention of competition is essential to exploitation.”

Economics Regulation Market Interventionism Subsidy

Book:Basic Economics: A Citizen's Guide to the Economy

Source: Basic Economics: A Citizen's Guide to the Economy

“People who want special taxes or subsidies for particular things seem not to understand that what they are really asking for is for prices to misstate the relative scarcities of things and the relative values that the users of these things put on them. . . Making anything artificially cheap usually means that it will be wasted.”

Taxes Waste Economics Scarcity Price Cheap Prices Subsidy

Book:Basic Economics: A Citizen's Guide to the Economy

Source: Basic Economics: A Citizen's Guide to the Economy

“the German and Japanese governments heavily subsidized their chemical industries for war purposes. Government subsidies, direct or indirect, spurred German developments in synthetic rubber and plastics, synthetic fuels, light metals, and various other substitutes for natural materials. However, the world's chemical industries would have grown rapidly without artificial encouragement.”

Growth Artificial Intervention Subsidy

Book:Cartels in Action: Case Studies in International Business Diplomacy

Source: Cartels in Action: Case Studies in International Business Diplomacy