pavane > wrote:
>
> "blake murphy" > wrote in message
> ...
> | On Mon, 12 Oct 2009 13:32:37 -0500, David Fetter wrote:
> | >
> | > Anybody who can point to an unsubsidized agriculture any time,
> | > anywhere in all of human history had best chime in with an example
> | > and its outcome before advocating that. I'd submit that there has
> | > never been any such a thing.
> | >
> | > Cheers,
> | > David.
> |
> | pot farming?
> |
> | your pal,
> | blake
>
> ...and moonshine?
>
> pavane

Both of those are subsidized by prohibition, which boosts prices,
encourages a more concentrated product, and rewards ruthlessness and
lawlessness. I'm not saying it was a good or well-thought-through
subsidy--quite the opposite--but it's a subsidy.

Cheers,
David
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To demonize state authoritarianism while ignoring identical albeit
contract-consecrated subservient arrangements in the large-scale
corporations which control the world economy is fetishism at its
worst.
Bob Black, The Libertarian As Conservative, 1984